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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2020

Knowledge extraction for assisted curation of summaries of bacterial transcription factor properties.

Carlos-Francisco Méndez-Cruz, Antonio Blanchet, Alan Godínez, Ignacio Arroyo-Fernández, Socorro Gama-Castro, Sara Berenice Martínez-Luna, Cristian González-Colín, Julio Collado-Vides

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Carlos-Francisco Méndez-CruzCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Antonio BlanchetCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Alan GodínezCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Ignacio Arroyo-FernándezCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Socorro Gama-CastroCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Sara Berenice Martínez-LunaCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Cristian González-ColínCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Julio Collado-VidesCentro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n, Colonia Chamilpa, Cuernavaca 62100, Morelos, Mexico.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos · MXBoston University · USTechnological University of the Mixteca · MX

Funding

A Comprehensive Resource for Escherichia coli Genomic Data and ToolsR01GM131643 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI COLLADO-VIDES, JULIO · 2019 to 2022
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM131643
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription factors (TFs) play a main role in transcriptional regulation of bacteria, as they regulate transcription of the genetic information encoded in DNA. Thus, the curation of the properties of these regulatory proteins is essential for a better understanding of transcriptional regulation. However, traditional manual curation of article collections to compile descriptions of TF properties takes significant time and effort due to the overwhelming amount of biomedical literature, which increases every day. The development of automatic approaches for knowledge extraction to assist curation is therefore critical. Here, we show an effective approach for knowledge extraction to assist curation of summaries describing bacterial TF properties based on an automatic text summarization strategy. We were able to recover automatically a median 77% of the knowledge contained in manual summaries describing properties of 177 TFs of Escherichia coli K-12 by processing 5961 scientific articles. For 71% of the TFs, our approach extracted new knowledge that can be used to expand manual descriptions. Furthermore, as we trained our predictive model with manual summaries of E. coli, we also generated summaries for 185 TFs of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium from 3498 articles. According to the manual curation of 10 of these Salmonella typhimurium summaries, 96% of their sentences contained relevant knowledge. Our results demonstrate the feasibility to assist manual curation to expand manual summaries with new knowledge automatically extracted and to create new summaries of bacteria for which these curation efforts do not exist. Database URL: The automatic summaries of the TFs of E. coli and Salmonella and the automatic summarizer are available in GitHub (https://github.com/laigen-unam/tf-properties-summarizer.git).

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Escherichia coli K12Transcription FactorsEscherichia coliGene Expression RegulationTranscription, GeneticTranscription Factors

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PMID33306798
PMCPMC7731926
OpenAlexW3112193959

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