Tagging gene and protein names in full text articles

Abstract

Current information extraction efforts in the biomedical domain tend to focus on finding entities and facts in structured databases or MEDLINE® abstracts. We apply a gene and protein name tagger trained on Medline abstracts (ABGene) to a randomly selected set of full text journal articles in the biomedical domain. We show the effect of adaptations made in response to the greater heterogeneity of full text.