The past decade has witnessed the modern advances of high-throughput technology and
rapid growth of research capacity in producing large-scale biological data, both of which …

One effective way to improve the state of the art is through competitions. Following the
success of the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) in bioinformatics …

We present a corpus of 5,000 richly annotated abstracts of medical articles describing
clinical randomized controlled trials. Annotations include demarcations of text spans that …

The appropriate collection and consumption of electronic health information about an
individual patient or population is the bedrock of modern healthcare, where electronic …

This article reports on a detailed investigation of PubMed users' needs and behavior as a
step toward improving biomedical information retrieval. PubMed is providing free service to …

Abstract Motivation: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) indexing, which is to assign a set of
MeSH main headings to citations, is crucial for many important tasks in biomedical text …

PubMed is a widely used search engine for biomedical literature. It is developed and
maintained by the US National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology …

High-quality medical systematic reviews require comprehensive literature searches to
ensure the recommendations and outcomes are sufficiently reliable. Indeed, searching for …

This paper presents EsdRank, a new technique for improving ranking using external semi-
structured data such as controlled vocabularies and knowledge bases. EsdRank treats …

The use of crowdsourcing to solve important but complex problems in biomedical and
clinical sciences is growing and encompasses a wide variety of approaches. The crowd is …