Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on January 22, 2004
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Bioinformatics 20(4) © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.
Automated extraction of mutation data from the literature: application of MuteXt to G protein-coupled receptors and nuclear hormone receptors
1 Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and 2 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California of San Francisco, Genentech Hall, Box 2240, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Received on August 8, 2003
; accepted on September 29, 2003
Advance Access Publication January 22, 2004
Motivation: The amount of genomic and proteomic data that is published daily in the scientific literature is outstripping the ability of experimental scientists to stay current. Reviews, the traditional medium for collating published observations, are also unable to keep pace. For some specific classes of information (e.g. sequences and protein structures), obligatory data deposition policies have helped. However, a great deal of other valuable information is spread throughout the literature hindering coherent access. We are involved in the Molecular Class-Specific Information System (MCSIS) project, a collaborative effort to design and automate the maintenance of protein family databases. The first two databases, the GPCRDB and NucleaRDB, are focused on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and nuclear hormone receptors (NRs), respectively. The main aim of the MCSIS project is to gather heterogeneous data from across a variety of electronic and literature sources in order to draw new inferences about the target protein families.
Results: We present a computational method that identifies and extracts mutation data from the scientific literature. We focused on the extraction of single point mutations for the GPCR and NR superfamilies. After validation by plausibility filters, the mutation data is integrated into the corresponding MCSIS where it is combined with structural and sequence information already stored in these databases. We extracted and validated 2736 true point mutations from 914 articles on GPCRs and 785 true point mutations from 1094 articles on NRs. The current version of our automated extraction algorithm identifies 49.3% of the GPCR point mutations with a specificity of 87.9%, and 64.5% of the NR point mutations with a specificity of 85.8%. MuteXt routinely analyzes 100 electronic articles in approximately 1 h.
Availability: Extracted results are available via the GPCRDB and NucleaRDB at http://www.gpcr.org/7tm/mutation/ and http://www.receptors.org/NR/mutation/, respectively. The algorithm is available upon request.
Contact: horn{at}cmpharm.ucsf.edu
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