| A text mining group has been set up at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, with objective to develop and adapt information retrieval and extraction tools to help Swiss-Prot curators in their daily annotation work. After over 7 year activities, this group has gathered a significant amount of experience about the need in text mining for biocuration.

The first observation we made is that there is no “in-a-box” solution which can satisfy every needs. Each curator has his/her own strategy to find information from the literature and none of the existing information retrieval systems is able to compete with it, more for reason of habits than for reason of performance. Second observation: to be... |
