Text mining and its potential applications in systems biology

摘要

With biomedical literature increasing at a rate of several thousand papers per week,it is impossible to keep abreast of all developments;therefore,automated means to manage the information overload are required.Text mining techniques,which involve the processes of information retrieval,information extraction and data mining,provide a means of solving this.By adding meaning to text,these techniques produce a more structured analysis of textual knowledge than simple word searches,and can provide powerful tools for the production and analysis of systems biology models.