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Nature 448, 130 (12 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448130b; Published online 11 July 2007

Text mining: powering the database revolution

Udo Hahn1, Joachim Wermter1, Rainer Blasczyk2 & Peter A. Horn2

  1. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Computational Linguistics Group – JULIE Lab, 07743 Jena, Germany
  2. Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Mark Gerstein and colleagues in Correspondence (Nature 447, 142; doi:10.1038/447142a 2007) propose that journals should require authors to manually provide structured abstracts to facilitate text mining of biological information.