Motivation: To understand biological process, we must clarify how proteins interact with each other. However, since information about protein-protein interactions still exists primarily in the scientific literature, it is not accessible in a computer-readable format. Efficient processing of large amounts of interactions therefore needs an intelligent information extraction method. Our aim is to develop an efficient method for extracting information on protein-protein interaction from scientific literature.

Results: We present a method for extracting information on protein-protein interactions from the scientific literature. This method, which employs only a protein name dictionary, surface clues on word patterns and simple part-of-speech rules, achieved high recall and precision rates for yeast (recall = 86.8% and precision = 94.3%) and Escherichia coli (recall = 82.5% and precision = 93.5%). The result of extraction suggests that our method should be applicable to any species for which a protein name dictionary is constructed.

Availability: The program is available on request from the authors.

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Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Ono T, Hishigaki H, Tanigami A, Takagi T

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