Table 1

The thirty selected verbs

Verb
Is the verb one of Top 30 frequent verbs in GENIA?
Is the usage different in the newswire and biomedical domains?
# of PAS's in BioProp

activate
Yes
Yes
145
affect
No
No
53
alter
No
No
27
associate
Yes
No
81
bind
Yes
Yes
189
block
No
No
56
decrease
No
No
41
differentiate
No
No
10
encode
Yes
Yes
75
enhance
Yes
No
37
express
Yes
Yes
186
increase
Yes
No
99
induce
Yes
No
263
inhibit
Yes
No
181
interact
No
Yes
34
mediate
Yes
No
103
modulate
No
Yes
22
mutate
No
Yes
5
phosphorylate
No
Yes
12
prevent
No
No
15
promote
No
Yes
13
reduce
No
No
38
regulate
Yes
No
116
repress
No
No
17
signal
No
No
7
stimulate
Yes
No
75
suppress
No
No
37
transactivate
No
Yes
21
transform
No
No
10
trigger
No
No
14

Tsai et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:325   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-325