NETME

NETME constructs knowledge networks from full-text PubMed articles to extract and synthesize relationships among biological entities for literature-derived knowledge discovery and modeling.


Key Features:

  • Automated Extraction: Automates extraction of biological entities and their interrelations from full-text biomedical literature using advanced algorithms.
  • Ontological Integration: Integrates extracted elements with ontological databases to ensure standardized identification and categorization of biological entities.
  • Network Synthesis: Synthesizes information across sources to construct inferred networks that map relationships among biological elements.

Scientific Applications:

  • Novel connection discovery: Identifies novel connections between biological entities by synthesizing literature-derived relationships.
  • Interaction network analysis: Reveals complex interaction networks that may not be apparent from individual studies.
  • Hypothesis generation: Supports generation of testable hypotheses by providing comprehensive overviews of literature-derived relationships.

Methodology:

Data acquisition: full-text articles sourced from PubMed; element extraction: biological elements extracted using advanced algorithms that interface with ontological databases for identification and categorization; network inference: relationships among identified elements are inferred to construct literature-derived knowledge networks.

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Details

License:
Not licensed
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
JavaScript
Added:
6/15/2022
Last Updated:
6/15/2022

Operations

Publications

Muscolino A, Di Maria A, Rapicavoli RV, Alaimo S, Bellomo L, Billeci F, Borzì S, Ferragina P, Ferro A, Pulvirenti A. NETME: on-the-fly knowledge network construction from biomedical literature. Applied Network Science. 2022;7(1). doi:10.1007/s41109-021-00435-x. PMID:35013714. PMCID:PMC8733431.

PMID: 35013714
PMCID: PMC8733431
Funding: - Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca: B96G18000590005 - Regione Siciliana: G89J18000700007 - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme: 820437, 871042

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