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Volume
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 abstracts, Online
J 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