Table 5

Application of the developed approach: number of Medline articles for the most often occuring histone modifications. Number of obtained MEDLINE abstracts for the most often occurring histone modifications after term identification and standardization. (The histone modification example 'H3K9me3' introduced in Section Background is marked in bold.)

Modification type

Number of articles


H3 K 9 me

231

H3 K 4 me

173

H3 K 4 me 3

104

H3 K 9 me 3

90

H3 K 9 me 2

80

H3 S 10 ph

79

H3 K 27 me 3

71

H3 K 9 ac

62

H3 K 27 me

60

H3 K 4 me 2

58


Kolářik et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S28   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S28

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