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Literature mining is a specialised data mining method that is used to extract information (facts or data) from text, such as the scientific literature. Literature mining can generate new hypotheses by systematically scrutinising huge numbers of abstracts, or full text versions, of scientific publications.
Chemical structures are typically published as nonmachine-readable images in scientific literature. Here, the authors present DECIMER.ai, an open platform for translating chemical structures in publications into machine-readable representations.
Many scientists are active on social media, especially Twitter. The social media world is changing, but these researchers want to stay socially connected.
A new mechanism for independently replicating research findings is one of several changes required to improve the quality of the biomedical literature.
