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9 (1):21-29, 2008
A comparison of information on molecular
interactions available in full-length publications versus abstracts
Mahadevan U1, Bhate J, Raghunath A, Kashyap S, Dey PC, Prakash N, Bhat B, Mol L, Wong, L2
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ABSTRACT
Mahadevan U, Bhate
J, Raghunath A, Kashyap
S, Dey PC, Prakash N, Bhat B, Mol L, Wong, LA comparison of information on molecular
interactions available in full-length publications versus abstractsOnline Journal of Bioinformatics 9 (1) 21-29, 2008 The last decade has seen an enormous growth in
biomedical research and the number of articles published. Biological
literature is a major repository of knowledge. Many databases gather this
knowledge by curation. As the number of articles
increase the burden on curation also increases.
Since abstracts could be obtained free, they could be a good source of
knowledge. However, an analysis of abstract versus full-length curation, in terms of information loss, is not available so
far. It is reported from a sample study of 120 research articles that, though
the data retrieved from abstracts might vary between 11 to 100%, for 78% of the
articles, 50% or more information could be gathered by abstract only curation than by full-length only curation.
Interestingly, for about 35% of the genes/proteins, the exact origin of the molecules were not decipherable even when
full-length articles were used. The analysis also shows that abstract
information is not misleading.
Key Words: text mining, annotation, database,
authors language, abstracts, full length article