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ArticleScientific reports2024

Named entity recognition of pharmacokinetic parameters in the scientific literature.

Ferran Gonzalez Hernandez, Quang Nguyen, Victoria C Smith, José Antonio Cordero, Maria Rosa Ballester, Màrius Duran, Albert Solé, Palang Chotsiri, Thanaporn Wattanakul, Gill Mundin and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Ferran Gonzalez HernandezDepartment of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK. ferran.hernandez.17@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7184-7557
Quang NguyenInstitute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2665-3125
Victoria C SmithInstitute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8629-0875
José Antonio CorderoBlanquerna School of Health Sciences, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.
Maria Rosa BallesterBlanquerna School of Health Sciences, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.
Màrius DuranBlanquerna School of Health Sciences, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.
Albert SoléBlanquerna School of Health Sciences, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.
Palang ChotsiriMahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Thanaporn WattanakulMahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Gill MundinDepartment of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
Watjana LilaonitkulGlobal Business School for Health, University College London, London, UK.
Joseph F StandingGreat Ormond Street Institute for Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
Frank KloproggeInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK. f.kloprogge@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7213-4559

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 214464
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of accurate predictions for a new drug's absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion profiles in the early stages of drug development is crucial due to high candidate failure rates. The absence of comprehensive, standardised, and updated pharmacokinetic (PK) repositories limits pre-clinical predictions and often requires searching through the scientific literature for PK parameter estimates from similar compounds. While text mining offers promising advancements in automatic PK parameter extraction, accurate Named Entity Recognition (NER) of PK terms remains a bottleneck due to limited resources. This work addresses this gap by introducing novel corpora and language models specifically designed for effective NER of PK parameters. Leveraging active learning approaches, we developed an annotated corpus containing over 4000 entity mentions found across the PK literature on PubMed. To identify the most effective model for PK NER, we fine-tuned and evaluated different NER architectures on our corpus. Fine-tuning BioBERT exhibited the best results, achieving a strict

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Data MiningPharmacokineticsHumansNatural Language Processing

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PMID39379460
PMCPMC11461509

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