Quantifying and filtering knowledge generated by literature based discovery

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 2 Number of linking terms yielded in replication of existing discoveries

	Mig–Mg	RD–fsh	Som–Arg	Mg–ND	AD–est	Sc–iPL	AD–INN
Number of linking terms found after a single step
unfiltered	81	2	232	101	490	0	365
sy	76	2	221	97	485	0	356
manual	58	0	157	57	362	0	258
Y-Y&P	0	2	0	1	1	0	0
clt	54	0	147	55	350	0	248
break	47	0	114	38	0	0	0
Number of linking terms found after two steps
unfiltered	49,877	1,386	132,514	69,669	424,712	9	386,098
sy	46,551	1,333	126,178	65,845	408,875	9	371,354
manual	25,921	510	67,206	27,046	217,834	9	203,616
Y-Y&P	0	602	44	121	396	0	0
clt	23,258	453	59,317	25,227	200,720	8	187,936
break	17,659	361	35,323	11,173	0	8	0

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