Medicinal plants have demonstrated therapeutic potential for applicability for a wide range of observable characteristics in the human body, known as "phenotype," and have been considered favorably in clinical treatment. With an ever increasing interest in plants, many researchers have attempted to extract meaningful information by identifying relationships between plants and phenotypes from the existing literature. Although natural language processing (NLP) aims to extract useful information from unstructured textual data, there is no appropriate corpus available to train and evaluate the NLP model for plants and phenotypes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Many new medicines have been derived from natural sources such as plants, which have a long history of being used for disease treatment. Thus, their benefits and side effects have been studied, and plant-related information including plant and disease relations have been accumulated in Medline articles. Because numerous articles are available in Medline and are written in natural language, text-mining is important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Computational approaches in the identification of drug targets are expected to reduce time and effort in drug development. Advances in genomics and proteomics provide the opportunity to uncover properties of druggable genomes. Although several studies have been conducted for distinguishing drug targets from non-drug targets, they mainly focus on the sequences and functional roles of proteins.
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September 2016
Background: Plants are natural products that humans consume in various ways including food and medicine. They have a long empirical history of treating diseases with relatively few side effects. Based on these strengths, many studies have been performed to verify the effectiveness of plants in treating diseases.
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