Anni 2.0: a multipurpose text-mining tool for the life sciences

Rob Jelier¹ , Martijn J Schuemie¹ , Antoine Veldhoven¹ , Lambert CJ Dorssers² , Guido Jenster³ and Jan A Kors¹

¹Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands

²Department of Pathology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands

³Department of Urology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R96doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-6-r96


Published:	12 June 2008

Subject areas: Bioinformatics

Abstract

Anni 2.0 is an online tool (http://biosemantics.org/anni/ webcite) to aid the biomedical researcher with a broad range of information needs. Anni provides an ontology-based interface to MEDLINE and retrieves documents and associations for several classes of biomedical concepts, including genes, drugs and diseases, with established text-mining technology. In this article we illustrate Anni's usability by applying the tool to two use cases: interpretation of a set of differentially expressed genes, and literature-based knowledge discovery.