Pork accounts for more than one-third of meat produced worldwide and is an important
component of global food security, agricultural economies, and trade. Infectious diseases …

Plants are fascinating and complex organisms. A comprehensive understanding of the
organization, function and evolution of plant genes is essential to disentangle important …

Community-run, formal evaluations and manually annotated text corpora are critically
important for advancing biomedical text-mining research. Recently in BioCreative V, a new …

Large neural language models have transformed modern natural language processing
(NLP) applications. However, fine-tuning such models for specific tasks remains challenging …

Abstract Information encoded in natural language in biomedical literature publications is
only useful if efficient and reliable ways of accessing and analyzing that information are …

Manually curating knowledge from biomedical literature into structured databases is highly
expensive and time-consuming, making it difficult to keep pace with the rapid growth of the …

Motivation: Despite the central role of diseases in biomedical research, there have been
much fewer attempts to automatically determine which diseases are mentioned in a text …

Chemical compounds and drugs are an important class of entities in biomedical research
with great potential in a wide range of applications, including clinical medicine. Locating …

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 …

The automatic recognition of gene names and their associated database identifiers from
biomedical text has been widely studied in recent years, as these tasks play an important …