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Volume 8 (1):8-17, 2007
A comparison of information on molecular
interactions available in full-length publications versus abstracts
Mahadevan U1*, Bhate J1,
Raghunath A1, Kashyap
S1, Dey PC1, Prakash N1, Bhat
B1, Zachariah LL1, Wong, L2
1Molecular Connections
Pvt. Ltd., Kandala Mansions, 2/2,
ABSTRACT
Mahadevan U, Bhate J, Raghunath A, Kashyap S, Dey PC, Prakash N, Bhat B, Zachariah LL, Wong L, A comparison of information
on molecular interactions available in full-length publications versus
abstracts, Online J Bioinformatics 8 (1): 8-17, 2007. 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