Ontology-assisted database integration to support natural language processing and biomedical data-mining
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doi:10.2390/biecoll-jib-2004-1
August 21, 2003
January 16, 2004
Jean-Luc Verschelde, Marianna Casella Dos Santos, Tom Deray, Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters
Correspondence should be addressed to:
Jean-Luc Verschelde
Hazenakkerstraat 20A, B-9520 Zonnegem, Belgium
eb.cdnal@nullcul-naej
Abstract
Successful biomedical data mining and information extraction require a complete picture of biological phenomena such as genes, biological processes and diseases as these exist on different levels of granularity. To realize this goal, several freely available heterogeneous databases as well as proprietary structured datasets have to be integrated into a single global customizable scheme. We will present a tool to integrate different biological data sources by mapping them to a proprietary biomedical ontology that has been developed for the purposes of making computers understand medical natural language.