Ariadne Genomics Launches MedScan™ Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, Unique Tool that Converts Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships
Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of MedScan™ Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com.
ROCKVILLE, MD (PRWEB) May 18, 2005 -- Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced
the launch of MedScan™ Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language
Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from
scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version
of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com.
MedScan™ leverages
hand-crafted dictionaries of protein and chemical names, and precise text
parsing and pattern matching algorithms specifically developed for biological
text analysis. It extracts functional relationships between proteins, cell
processes, and small molecules, recognizes types of regulatory mechanisms
involved and the effects of regulation, and can be customized to extract other
types of information.
“The majority of pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies recognize the need for an in-house information extraction technology
that would help them to process literature, patent applications and internal
text documents in order to create and automatically maintain internal functional
relationship databases, amenable to computational analysis,” said Nikolai
Daraselia, Director of Research at Ariadne Genomics. “Data extracted with
MedScan is normally the same or better quality than manually curated data, and
it is easy to verify and replicate the results of MedScan work.”
The new
version of MedScan™ adds flexibility on the level of entity recognition and
information extraction. It has become simple to customize dictionaries and
lexicons, extract new types of relationships by adding or editing linguistic
patterns, and create and customize ontologies. MedScan™ users can create
information extraction pipelines with different output, set up regular automatic
processing of upcoming content for selected sources, and integrate MedScan with
other bioinformatics tools for further analysis of extracted
information.
For more information about MedScan, or for a web-based
trial, visit Ariadne Genomics website www.ariadnegenomics.com.
About Ariadne Genomics
Ariadne Genomics is a Maryland-based company
developing systems biology tools for life science research: PathwayStudio™
Central client-server pathway analysis software, PathwayAssist™ desktop software
for reconstruction, analysis and visualization of biological pathways; MedScan™
TextMiner, an automated scientific text processing tool; ResNet molecular
networks database, created by automated extraction of biological facts from the
entire PubMed, and Seqware™ personal sequence data management platform. More on
Ariadne Genomics please find at www.ariadnegenomics.com.
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