PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Morgan N. Price
AU  - Adam P. Arkin
TI  - PaperBLAST: Text-mining papers for information about homologs
AID  - 10.1101/133041
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 133041
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/02/133041.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/02/133041.full
AB  - Large-scale genome sequencing has identified millions of protein-coding genes whose function is unknown. Many of these proteins are similar to characterized proteins from other organisms, but much of this information is missing from annotation databases and is hidden in the scientific literature. To make this information accessible, PaperBLAST uses EuropePMC to search the full text of scientific articles for references to genes. PaperBLAST also takes advantage of curated resources that link protein sequences to scientific articles (Swiss-Prot, GeneRIF, and EcoCyc). PaperBLAST’s database includes over 700,000 scientific articles that mention over 400,000 different proteins. Given a protein of interest, PaperBLAST quickly finds similar proteins that are discussed in the literature and presents snippets of text from relevant articles or from the curators. PaperBLAST is available at http://papers.genomics.lbl.gov/.