Ariadne Genomics Launches MedScan Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, Unique Tool that Converts Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships

Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of MedScan Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com.

ROCKVILLE, MD (PRWEB) May 18, 2005 -- Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of MedScan Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com.

MedScan leverages hand-crafted dictionaries of protein and chemical names, and precise text parsing and pattern matching algorithms specifically developed for biological text analysis. It extracts functional relationships between proteins, cell processes, and small molecules, recognizes types of regulatory mechanisms involved and the effects of regulation, and can be customized to extract other types of information.

The majority of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies recognize the need for an in-house information extraction technology that would help them to process literature, patent applications and internal text documents in order to create and automatically maintain internal functional relationship databases, amenable to computational analysis," said Nikolai Daraselia, Director of Research at Ariadne Genomics. Data extracted with MedScan is normally the same or better quality than manually curated data, and it is easy to verify and replicate the results of MedScan work."

The new version of MedScan adds flexibility on the level of entity recognition and information extraction. It has become simple to customize dictionaries and lexicons, extract new types of relationships by adding or editing linguistic patterns, and create and customize ontologies. MedScan users can create information extraction pipelines with different output, set up regular automatic processing of upcoming content for selected sources, and integrate MedScan with other bioinformatics tools for further analysis of extracted information.

For more information about MedScan, or for a web-based trial, visit Ariadne Genomics website www.ariadnegenomics.com.

About Ariadne Genomics
Ariadne Genomics is a Maryland-based company developing systems biology tools for life science research: PathwayStudio Central client-server pathway analysis software, PathwayAssist desktop software for reconstruction, analysis and visualization of biological pathways; MedScan TextMiner, an automated scientific text processing tool; ResNet molecular networks database, created by automated extraction of biological facts from the entire PubMed, and Seqware personal sequence data management platform. More on Ariadne Genomics please find at www.ariadnegenomics.com.

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