Gene-Disease Interaction Retrieval from Multiple Sources: A Network Based Method

Table 11

Comparisons of Literome, DisGeNet, and expanded gene-disease network.

	Literome	DisGeNet [13]	Expanded gene-disease network
Sources	PubMed	GAD, CTD, and other 12 more	GAD, PubMed, and 14 more databases
PubMed articles linkage	Yes	No	Partial
Gene-disease interactions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Interaction path	Partial	No	Yes
Path length	3	1	Can be assigned
Demonstration	PMID and marked texts	List of triplet	Disease names and gene names in path
Database update	Yes	Yes	Yes
Supported medical terms retrieval	Genic interactions, genotype-phenotype	Disease and gene	Gene and disease interactions