Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Informatics
Date Submitted: Aug 3, 2020
Date Accepted: Jan 16, 2021
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BiDI: Using Machine Learning to collect and facilitate remote access to biomedical databases
ABSTRACT
Background:
Currently, existing biomedical literature repositories do not commonly provide users with specific means to locate and remotely access biomedical databases.
Objective:
To address this issue we developed BiDI (Biomedical Database Inventory), a repository linking to biomedical databases automatically extracted from the scientific literature. BiDI provides an index of data resources and a path to access them in a seamless manner.
Methods:
We designed an ensemble of Deep Learning methods to extract database mentions. To train the system we annotated a set of 1,242 articles that included mentions to database publications. Such a dataset was used along with transfer learning techniques to train an ensemble of deep learning NLP models based on the task of database publication detection.
Results:
The system obtained an f1-score of 0.929 on database detection, showing high precision and recall values. Applying this model to the PubMed and PubMed Central databases we identified over 10,000 unique databases. The ensemble also extracts the web links to the reported databases, discarding the irrelevant links. For the extraction of web links the model achieved a cross-validated f1-score of 0.908. We show two use cases, related to “omics” and the COVID-19 pandemia.
Conclusions:
BiDI enables the access of biomedical resources over the Internet and facilitates data-driven research and other scientific initiatives. The repository is available at (http://gib.fi.upm.es/bidi/) and will be regularly updated with an automatic text processing pipeline. The approach can be reused to create repositories of different types (biomedical and others).
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