Research Article

A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Extract Disease-Related Biomarkers from the Literature

Table 1

Contents and statistics of gene, disease, and biomarker-gene and disease-biomarker dictionaries.

DictionaryNumber of conceptsNumber of termsAmbiguityVariability

Gene 50,090545,5191.515.98
Gene curated/extended50,090649,4141.4612.96
Disease 79,781378,6161.014.14
Disease curated/extended74,073294,3711.023.97
Biomarker-specific gene3,53389,2361.2725.26
Biomarker-specific disease3,12235,6861.0511.43