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).

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),

full text

full text


Gene Ontology (GO) codes

Evidence

full text


Codes + Evidence

full text


Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI)

IAS(ACT)

abstract

ACT

full text

ACT

abstract


IMS(IMT)

full text

IMT

full text


IPS(IPT)

full text

IPT

full text


ISS

full text


Interactive Annotation Task (IAT) demo

Online GN and gene ranking

full text


Online retrieval

full text


Arighi et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2011 12(Suppl 8):S1   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S8-S1

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