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Cell Line Name Recognition in Support of the Identification of Synthetic Lethality in Cancer from Text

Suwisa Kaewphan, Sofie Van Landeghem, Tomoko Ohta, Yves Van de Peer, Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, Cell Line Name Recognition in Support of the Identification of Synthetic Lethality in Cancer from Text. Bioinformatics , 1–7, 2015.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv570

Abstract:

Motivation: The recognition and normalization of cell line names in text is an important task in biomedical text mining research, facilitating for instance the identification of synthetically lethal genes from the literature. While several tools have previously been developed to address cell line recognition, it is unclear whether available systems can perform sufficiently well in realistic and broad-coverage applications such as extracting synthetically lethal genes from the cancer literature. In this study, we revisit the cell line name recognition task, evaluating both available systems and newly introduced methods on various resources to obtain a reliable tagger not tied to any specific subdomain. In support of this task, we introduce two text collections manually annotated for cell line names: the broad-coverage corpus Gellus and CLL, a focused target domain corpus.

Results: We find that the best performance is achieved using NERsuite, a machine learning system based on Conditional Random Fields, trained on the Gellus corpus and supported with a dictionary of cell line names. The system achieves an F-score of 88.46% on the test set of Gellus and 85.98% on the independently annotated CLL corpus. It was further applied at large scale to 24 302 102 unannotated articles, resulting in the identification of 5 181 342 cell line mentions, normalized to 11 755 unique cell line database identifiers.

Availability and implementation: The manually annotated datasets, the cell line dictionary, derived corpora, NERsuite models and the results of the large-scale run on unannotated texts are available under open licenses at http://turkunlp.github.io/Cell-line-recognition/.

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BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jKaVaOhVaGiPy15a,
  title = {Cell Line Name Recognition in Support of the Identification of Synthetic Lethality in Cancer from Text},
  author = {Kaewphan, Suwisa and Van Landeghem, Sofie and Ohta, Tomoko and Van de Peer, Yves and Ginter, Filip and Pyysalo, Sampo},
  journal = {Bioinformatics},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  pages = {1–7},
  year = {2015},
  ISSN = {1367-4803},
}

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