Table 3

Numbers of PubMed abstracts requiring manual review after screening by SVM method and previous method*.


05-Apr-07
12-Apr-07
19-Apr-07
26-Apr-07
Total

The SVM tool
521
397
458
400
1776
The previous method
4010
3013
3789
3382
14194

Note: the number for the SVM tool was generated based on Entrez date; the number for the previous method was generated based on MeSH date.

*: Previous method: the screening method described in the reference 5.

Yu et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:205   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-205