Why Biomedical Literature?

• Potentially 80% of the known biomedical knowledge is contained in PubMed

Analysis

Interpretation

“If we were to read but two

biomedical articles daily, within 1

year we would fall more than 60

centuries behind…”

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An Illustration

Mining Hidden Linkages

Background

Migraine-Magnesium Deficiency connection hypothesized (Swanson, 1988)

Gallai et.al. corroborate this connection (1992)

Task - Can we mine the hidden linkage?• Dataset: All pre-1988 literature containing

1) Migraine (but NOT Magnesium), plus

2) Magnesium (but NOT Migraine)

The Human Way..

• Dataset contains 15,000+ literature (3000+ for Migraine and 12000+ for Magnesium)

• Browsing through them will take….. you can imagine!

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BioText Results

BioText Results