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MutationFinder: a high-performance system for extracting point mutation mentions from text.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Jul 2007
Caporaso J Gregory, Baumgartner William A, Randolph David A, Cohen K Bretonnel, Hunter Lawrence
Abstract excerpt
Discussion of point mutations is ubiquitous in biomedical literature, and manually compiling databases or literature on mutations in specific genes or proteins is tedious. We present an open-source, rule-based system, MutationFinder, for extracting point mutation mentions from text. On blind test data, it achieves nearly perfect precision and a markedly improved recall over a baseline. AVAILABILITY:...
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