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ArticleJournal of biomedical informatics2013

Leveraging concept-based approaches to identify potential phyto-therapies.

Vivekanand Sharma, Indra Neil Sarkar

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Article in Journal of biomedical informatics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Identifying Supplement Use Within Clinical Notes: An Applicationof Natural Language Processing.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2018
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  2. Identifying Plant-Human Disease Associations in Biomedical Literature: A Case Study.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Vivekanand SharmaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
Indra Neil Sarkar

Funding

Enhancing Organism Based Disease Knowledge Via Name Based Taxonomic IntelligenceR01LM009725 · NLM · MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY · PI SARKAR, INDRA N · 2008 to 2010
$1.1M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM009725NLM NIH HHS R01LM009725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The potential of plant-based remedies has been documented in both traditional and contemporary biomedical literature. Such types of text sources may thus be sources from which one might identify potential plant-based therapies ("phyto-therapies"). Concept-based analytic approaches have been shown to uncover knowledge embedded within biomedical literature. However, to date there has been limited attention towards leveraging such techniques for the identification of potential phyto-therapies. This study presents concept-based analytic approaches for the retrieval and ranking of associations between plants and human diseases. Focusing on identification of phyto-therapies described in MEDLINE, both MeSH descriptors used for indexing and MetaMap inferred UMLS concepts are considered. Furthermore, the identification and ranking consider both direct (i.e., plant concepts directly correlated with disease concepts) and inferred (i.e., plant concepts associated with disease concepts based on shared signs and symptoms) relationships. Based on the two scoring methodologies used in this study, it was found that a Vector Space Model approach outperformed probabilistic reliability based inferences. An evaluation of the approach is provided based on therapeutic interventions catalogued in both ClinicalTrials.gov and NDF-RT. The promising findings from this feasibility study highlight the challenges and applicability of concept-based analytic strategies for distilling phyto-therapeutic knowledge from text based knowledge sources like MEDLINE.

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PhytotherapyClinical Trials as TopicHumansMedical Subject HeadingsConcept-based text analyticsDrug discoveryPhyto-therapiesTranslational bioinformatics

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PMID23665360
PMCPMC3723125

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