2. Why Biomedical Literature? Potentially 80% of the known biomedical knowledge is contained in PubMed Analysis Interpretation

4. “If we were to read but two biomedical articles daily, within 1 year we would fall more than 60 centuries behind…”

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6. An Illustration

7. Mining Hidden Linkages Background Migraine-Magnesium Deficiency connection hypothesized (Swanson, 1988) Gallai et.al. corroborate this connection (1992) Task - Can we mine the hidden linkage? Dataset: All pre-1988 literature containing 1) Migraine (but NOT Magnesium), plus 2) Magnesium (but NOT Migraine)

8. The Human Way.. Dataset contains 15,000+ literature (3000+ for Migraine and 12000+ for Magnesium) Browsing through them will take….. you can imagine!

9. With BioText

10. BioText Results