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OJBTM
Online Journal of
Bioinformatics ©
Volume 8
(1):8-17, 2007
A comparison of information on molecular
interactions available in full-length publications versus abstracts
Mahadevan U1*, Bhate J1, Raghunath A1, Kashyap S1, Dey PC1,
Prakash N1, Bhat B1, Zachariah LL1,
Wong, L2
1Molecular
Connections Pvt. Ltd., Kandala Mansions, 2/2,
ABSTRACT
Mahadevan U, Bhate
J, Raghunath A, Kashyap S, Dey
PC, Prakash N, Bhat B, Zachariah LL, Wong L., A comparison of information on
molecular interactions available in full-length publications versus abstracts, Onl J Bioinform., 8 (1): 8-17,
2007.
The last decade has seen an enormous growth in
biomedical research and the number of articles published. Biological literature
is a major repository of knowledge. Many databases gather this knowledge by
curation. As the number of articles increase the burden on curation also
increases. Since abstracts could be obtained free, they could be a good
source of knowledge. However, an analysis of abstract versus full-length
curation, in terms of information loss, is not available so far. It is reported
from a sample study of 120 research articles that, though the data retrieved
from abstracts might vary between 11 to 100%, for 78% of the articles, 50% or
more information could be gathered by abstract only curation than by
full-length only curation. Interestingly, for about 35% of the genes/proteins,
the exact origin of the molecules were not
decipherable even when full-length articles were used. The analysis also shows
that abstract information is not misleading.
Key Words: text mining, annotation, database, authors’ language,
abstracts, full-length article
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