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    Tracking genetic variants in the biomedical literature using LitVar 2.0

    Kee** up with the latest variant-related research is vital for genomic medicine. Here we present LitVar 2.0, a significantly improved web-based system to accurately search for genetic variants in the unstruc...

    Alexis Allot, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Lon Phan, Timothy Hefferon in Nature Genetics (2023)

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    NLM-Chem, a new resource for chemical entity recognition in PubMed full text literature

    Automatically identifying chemical and drug names in scientific publications advances information access for this important class of entities in a variety of biomedical disciplines by enabling improved retriev...

    Rezarta Islamaj, Robert Leaman, Sun Kim, Dongseop Kwon, Chih-Hsuan Wei in Scientific Data (2021)

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    Improving chemical disease relation extraction with rich features and weakly labeled data

    Due to the importance of identifying relations between chemicals and diseases for new drug discovery and improving chemical safety, there has been a growing interest in develo** automatic relation extraction...

    Yifan Peng, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Zhiyong Lu in Journal of Cheminformatics (2016)

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    tmChem: a high performance approach for chemical named entity recognition and normalization

    Chemical compounds and drugs are an important class of entities in biomedical research with great potential in a wide range of applications, including clinical medicine. Locating chemical named entities in the...

    Robert Leaman, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Zhiyong Lu in Journal of Cheminformatics (2015)

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    The gene normalization task in BioCreative III

    We report the Gene Normalization (GN) challenge in BioCreative III where participating teams were asked to return a ranked list of identifiers of the genes detected in full-text articles. For training, 32 full...

    Zhiyong Lu, Hung-Yu Kao, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Minlie Huang, **gchen Liu in BMC Bioinformatics (2011)

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    Cross-species gene normalization by species inference

    To access and utilize the rich information contained in the biomedical literature, the ability to recognize and normalize gene mentions referenced in the literature is crucial. In this paper, we focus on impro...

    Chih-Hsuan Wei, Hung-Yu Kao in BMC Bioinformatics (2011)