KiPar

KiPar is an information retrieval system designed to facilitate access to experimental evidence on kinetic parameters buried in the literature, particularly for systems biology where these parameters need to be integrated into detailed, genome-scale, metabolic models. It allows the user to search for kinetic data in the context of an individual pathway, which offers modularity and is suitable for large-scale mining. The system combines public data and software resources to rapidly develop large-scale text mining tools. Evaluation reveals that KiPar performs better than a Boolean search, achieving high precision and recall. The source code and documentation are available for free download.