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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 13, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(16):2082-2084; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp318
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Figure mining for biomedical research

Raul Rodriguez-Esteban 1,* and Ivan Iossifov 2

1Systems Biology, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA 02139 and 2Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11742, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

Motivation: Figures from biomedical articles contain valuable information difficult to reach without specialized tools. Currently, there is no search engine that can retrieve specific figure types.

Results: This study describes a retrieval method that takes advantage of principles in image understanding, text mining and optical character recognition (OCR) to retrieve figure types defined conceptually. A search engine was developed to retrieve tables and figure types to aid computational and experimental research.

Availability: http://iossifovlab.cshl.edu/figurome

Contact: raul.rodriguez-esteban{at}pfizer.com

Associate Editor: Limsoon Wong

Received on March 2, 2009; revised on May 11, 2009; accepted on May 11, 2009

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