EBI validates Reel Two Software

January 16, 2004

The European Bioinformatics Institute and Flybase have validated Reel Two's classification of Medline according the Gene Ontology terms. This collaboration is the first step in developing a system to vastly increase the number of GO term literature annotations.

While the Gene Ontology references biomedical literature that illustrates the concept behind a GO term, it does not provide a comprehensive listing of related articles. Researchers could thus benefit from an automated system that substantially increases the amount of GO-related literature. This in turn can be used to increase number of inferred gene and protein annotations, expose semantic links between GO terms, possibly uncover and amend biases in current curation due to research trends, electronically inferred annotation, etc.

Having obtained promising results from the validation, Reel Two is working with EBI and Flybase to develop an interactive system that covers all of GO, allows for worldwide curation and automated learning.

Results of the validation were presented to the Gene Ontology Users Meeting, held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA on January 15, 2004. Click here to see the slides that accompanied the talk.

 

About Reel Two

Reel Two is bringing data mining to a new, broader range of users. The company's classification and entity extraction products can be easily customized, are extremely fast and memory-efficient, and can be deployed in desktop or enterprise environments. Reel Two's life science solutions enable researchers to extract knowledge from documents and data and identify associations between isolated areas of research in drug discovery, development and clinical trials. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with a development center in Hamilton, New Zealand. For more information, please visit http://www.reeltwo.com/.

 

About EBI

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

The EBI is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures.

The mission of the EBI is to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is placed in the public domain and is accessible freely to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress.

 

About Flybase

FlyBase is a database of genetic and molecular data for Drosophila. FlyBase includes data on all species from the family Drosophilidae; the primary species represented is Drosophila melanogaster.

FlyBase is produced by a consortium of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health, U.S.A., and the Medical Research Council, London. This consortium includes both Drosophila biologists and computer scientists at Harvard University, University of Cambridge (UK), Indiana University, University of California, Berkeley, and the European Bioinformatics Institute.