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- Title
Tools for loading MEDLINE into a local relational database.
- Authors
Oliver, Diane E; Bhalotia, Gaurav; Schwartz, Ariel S; Altman, Russ B; Hearst, Marti A
- Abstract
Researchers who use MEDLINE for text mining, information extraction, or natural language processing may benefit from having a copy of MEDLINE that they can manage locally. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) distributes MEDLINE in eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-formatted text files, but it is difficult to query MEDLINE in that format. We have developed software tools to parse the MEDLINE data files and load their contents into a relational database. Although the task is conceptually straightforward, the size and scope of MEDLINE make the task nontrivial. Given the increasing importance of text analysis in biology and medicine, we believe a local installation of MEDLINE will provide helpful computing infrastructure for researchers.
- Publication
BMC bioinformatics, 2004, Vol 5, p146
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-5-146