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Improving biocuration of microRNAs in diseases: a case study in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Balderas-Martínez, Yalbi Itzel; Rinaldi, Fabio; Contreras, Gabriela; Solano-Lira, Hilda; Sánchez-Pérez, Mishael; Collado-Vides, Julio; Selman, Moisés; Pardo, Annie (2017). Improving biocuration of microRNAs in diseases: a case study in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Database, 2017(1):bax030.

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small and non-coding RNA molecules that inhibit gene expression posttranscriptionally. They play important roles in several biological processes, and in recent years there has been an interest in studying how they are related to the pathogenesis of diseases. Although there are already some databases that contain information for miRNAs and their relation with illnesses, their curation represents a significant challenge due to the amount of information that is being generated every day. In particular, respiratory diseases are poorly documented in databases, despite the fact that they are of increasing concern regarding morbidity, mortality and economic impacts. In this work, we present the results that we obtained in the BioCreative Interactive Track (IAT), using a semiautomatic approach for improving biocuration of miRNAs related to diseases. Our procedures will be useful to complement databases that contain this type of information. We adapted the OntoGene text mining pipeline and the ODIN curation system in a full-text corpus of scientific publications concerning one specific respiratory disease: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the most common and aggressive of the idiopathic interstitial cases of pneumonia. We curated 823 miRNA text snippets and found a total of 246 miRNAs related to this disease based on our semiautomatic approach with the system OntoGene/ODIN. The biocuration throughput improved by a factor of 12 compared with traditional manual biocuration. A significant advantage of our semiautomatic pipeline is that it can be applied to obtain the miRNAs of all the respiratory diseases and offers the possibility to be used for other illnesses.
Database URL:http://odin.ccg.unam.mx/ODIN/bc2015-miRNA/

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
410 Linguistics
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Information Systems
Life Sciences > General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Life Sciences > General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords:General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems
Language:English
Date:2017
Deposited On:09 Feb 2018 14:54
Last Modified:18 Jan 2025 02:37
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:1758-0463
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bax030
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