Extraction of relations between genes and diseases from text and large-scale data analysis: implications for translational research

Table 1 Comparison of BeFree performance to previous work

Method	Drug-disease	Gene-disease	Drug-target
Chun et al. 2006 [25]	-	83%	-
Bundschus et al. 2008 [13]	-	78%	-
Gurulingappa et al. 2012 [11]	87%	-	-
Kang et al. 2014 [12]	54%	-	-
Névéol and Lu. 2010 [10]	-	-	69%
Xu and Wang 2012 [6]	-	-	40%
Xu and Wang 2013 [43]	23%	-	-
Hakenberg et al. 2012 [15]	76%	84%	83%
Buyko et al. 2012 [42]	79%	76%	82%
BeFree	79%	85%	83%

Performance of different approaches including BeFree in terms of F for the three association types is presented. Note that the results corresponding to the work of others are quoted verbatim from the literature, and are therefore not directly comparable.

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