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Table 1 Tasks performed by participants in the four BioCreative Workshops held to date. Abbreviations are defined as follows, interacting protein normalization task (INT), interaction article subtask (IAS) or article classification task (ACT), interaction methods subtask (IMS) or task (IMT), interaction pairs subtask (IPS) or task (IPT), interaction sentence subtask (ISS).

From: Overview of the BioCreative III Workshop

Workshop Task

BioCr I 2004

BioCr II 2007

BioCr II.5 2009

BioCr III 2010

Gene Mention (GM)

sentences

abstract

sentences

abstract

  

Gene Normalization (GN)

Fly, Yeast, Mouse

abstract

Human

abstract

INT(proteins),

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Gene Ontology (GO) codes

Evidence

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Codes + Evidence

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Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI)

 

IAS(ACT)

abstract

ACT

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ACT

abstract

  

IMS(IMT)

full text

 

IMT

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IPS(IPT)

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IPT

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ISS

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Interactive Annotation Task (IAT) demo

   

Online GN and gene ranking

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Online retrieval

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