Reel Two to Present at NZ Biotech Conference

February 11, 2002, New Zealand.

Reel Two CTO John Cleary will present "Connecting Gene Function to Literature" at the NZ Bioinformatics Conference this February 13-14th in Dunedin, NZ. The presentation abstract:

One of the major challenges facing bio-informatics is the problem of how to connect disparate sources of information. A system that connects gene function with published papers is described. It uses Gene Ontology terms to specify the gene function. Each Gene Ontology term is linked to related abstracts taken from all the 12 million entries in the PUBMED corpus. Machine learning technology is used to train the system on 27,000 abstracts that have been assigned to 3,500 Gene Ontology terms by human editors. A description will be given of the challenges and solutions required for a system of this size.

For more information about the conference, please visit the conference site at:

http://bioconf.otago.ac.nz/