The Biomedical Information Retrieval & Digging (BIRD) project aims
at creating computer programs that can automatically read and
analyze the tremendous amount of biomedical information on the
Internet. We think the key feature of biomedical information is the
rich data with rich annotations and linkages. The biomedical data
resources include: text literature (e.g., journal/conference papers,
book reviews), bibliographic databases (e.g., MEDLINE), genome
databases (e.g. mouse, yeast), gene/protein function databases
(e.g., GeneOntology, LocusLink, GeneRIF), and so on. Such a data
richness poses great challenges and opportunities to computer
scientists. |