MutationFinder: A high-performance system for extracting point mutation mentions from text

  • J. Gregory Caporaso
  • , William A. Baumgartner
  • , David A. Randolph
  • , K. Bretonnel Cohen
  • , Lawrence Hunter

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Abstract

Discussion of point mutations is ubiquitous in biomedical literature, and manually compiling databases or literature on mutations in specific genes or proteins is tedious. We present an open-source, rule-based system, MutationFinder, for extracting point mutation mentions from text. On blind test data, it achieves nearly perfect precision and a markedly improved recall over a baseline.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1862-1865
Number of pages4
JournalBioinformatics
Volume23
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 15 2007

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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