UCSC Genome Bioinformatics

Genocoding Project

Genomic Text Indexing: Scanning papers for genomic identifiers and mapping them to the human genome. We currently recognize DNA and protein sequences, SNPs, bands and gene symbols.

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Open letter to publishers

In February 2012 we sent out a letter to various publishers.

Letter »

Press Coverage

Richard van Norden wrote a news article in Nature 2012. See also the editorial. We have also been mentioned in an article about text mining in the Guardian.

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Progress

You can follow the progress of permission requests here.

Example results

The current Elsevier/PMC data on the UCSC genome browser zoomed to the EGF gene.

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Current crawler status

Since June 2012, we are crawling documents.

Current status »

Questions?

We often hear similar questions from publishers and are trying to address them here.

Classification results

Articles assigned to biological databases