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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

GNorm2: an improved gene name recognition and normalization system.

Chih-Hsuan Wei, Ling Luo, Rezarta Islamaj, Po-Ting Lai, Zhiyong Lu

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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Chih-Hsuan WeiNational Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20894, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5094-7321
Ling LuoSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5141-0259
Rezarta IslamajNational Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20894, United States.
Po-Ting LaiNational Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20894, United States.
Zhiyong LuNational Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20894, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9998-916X

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Abstract

motivationGene name normalization is an important yet highly complex task in biomedical text mining research, as gene names can be highly ambiguous and may refer to different genes in different species or share similar names with other bioconcepts. This poses a challenge for accurately identifying and linking gene mentions to their corresponding entries in databases such as NCBI Gene or UniProt. While there has been a body of literature on the gene normalization task, few have addressed all of these challenges or make their solutions publicly available to the scientific community.

resultsBuilding on the success of GNormPlus, we have created GNorm2: a more advanced tool with optimized functions and improved performance. GNorm2 integrates a range of advanced deep learning-based methods, resulting in the highest levels of accuracy and efficiency for gene recognition and normalization to date. Our tool is freely available for download. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://github.com/ncbi/GNorm2.

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