LIFE Biosystems GmbH, Germany, has announced that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Department of Bioinformatics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI). As part of the deal, LIFE has licensed the ProMiner entity recognition software, which will become an integral part of LIFE's text-mining infrastructure.
In addition, both parties will work to collaboratively advance the development of information extraction algorithms in the clinical research domain. These efforts will focus on the identification and modelling of therapeutically relevant information from clinical/lexical data, with particular emphasis on drug mode of action and clinical outcomes.
The Department of Bioinformatics at SCAI is focused on text-mining and information extraction in the life sciences. Two software solutions developed for the advanced analysis of bibliographic information are ProMiner and ChemoCR. ProMiner is a specialised tool for named entity recognition in biology, medicine and chemistry, while ChemoCR is a new development, capable of translating depictions of chemical structures into explicit chemical nomenclatures.
