Technical Specification and Parameter settings

ProMiner is available for UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows.

A scheduler for cluster runs could be provided

Textformat:

ASCII text, supports directly standard medline and xml format; special format requirements can be adapted

Output format:

meta-information or XML tagged text

Visualisation:

text mining database with front end is available on request

Standard parameter settings:

The standard parameters for ProMiner are geared towards high performance based on several benchmark assessments:

mentions of unique or

disambiguated gene names

ambiguous gene names,

gene mentions followed by ‘-‘ or

family names (e.g. bcl 2 family) or

cell names ( e.g. CD34 (+) cells)

Higher recall could be reached easily with simple changes in parameter settings and/or a different dictionary compilation.