ContentMine can read the daily scientific literature and extract facts. This talk was given to the OpenPlant project - with whom ContentMine collaborate at a meeting on 2016-07-25/27 in Norwich. Examples of extracted facts are given.
High throughput mining of the plant-science literaturepetermurrayrust
We can now mine the plant science literature for facts, especially species (both plants and others), chemicals, diseases and other agricultural terms. This presentation gives a number of examples and links on how you can do this on the Open Access literature
Amanuens.is HUmans and machines annotating scholarly literaturepetermurrayrust
about 10,000 scholarly articles ("papers") are published each day. Amanuens.is is a symbiont of ContentMine and Hypothes.is (both Shuttleworth projects/Fellows) which annotates theses using an array of controlled vocabularies ("dictionaries"). The results, in semantic form are used to annotate the original material. The talk had live demos and used plant chemistry as the examples
Can Computers understand the scientific literature (includes compscie material)TheContentMine
Published on Jan 24, 2014 by PMR
With the semantic web machines can autonomously carry out many knowledge-based tasks as well as humans. The main problems are not technical but the prevention of access to information. I advocate automatic downloading and indexing of all scientific information
Mining facts from the plant science iteraturepetermurrayrust
Much of the plant science literature consists of valuable factual information with a range of well-defined "facets". These include Species, diseases, and (phyto)chemicals. The presentation shows how this information can be extracted automatically from the current literature and includes instructions for the use of ContentMine software
Amanuens.is HUmans and machines annotating scholarly literature TheContentMine
Published on May 19, 2016 by PMR
about 10,000 scholarly articles ("papers") are published each day. Amanuens.is is a symbiont of ContentMine and Hypothes.is (both Shuttleworth projects/Fellows) which annotates theses using an array of controlled vocabularies ("dictionaries"). The results, in semantic form are used to annotate the original material. The talk had live demos and used plant chemistry as the examples
Published on May 18, 2016 by PMR
Talk to EBI Industry group on Open Software for chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. Covers examples of chemistry , wit demos, and argues that all public knowledge should be Openly accessible
High throughput mining of the plant-science literaturepetermurrayrust
We can now mine the plant science literature for facts, especially species (both plants and others), chemicals, diseases and other agricultural terms. This presentation gives a number of examples and links on how you can do this on the Open Access literature
Amanuens.is HUmans and machines annotating scholarly literaturepetermurrayrust
about 10,000 scholarly articles ("papers") are published each day. Amanuens.is is a symbiont of ContentMine and Hypothes.is (both Shuttleworth projects/Fellows) which annotates theses using an array of controlled vocabularies ("dictionaries"). The results, in semantic form are used to annotate the original material. The talk had live demos and used plant chemistry as the examples
Can Computers understand the scientific literature (includes compscie material)TheContentMine
Published on Jan 24, 2014 by PMR
With the semantic web machines can autonomously carry out many knowledge-based tasks as well as humans. The main problems are not technical but the prevention of access to information. I advocate automatic downloading and indexing of all scientific information
Mining facts from the plant science iteraturepetermurrayrust
Much of the plant science literature consists of valuable factual information with a range of well-defined "facets". These include Species, diseases, and (phyto)chemicals. The presentation shows how this information can be extracted automatically from the current literature and includes instructions for the use of ContentMine software
Amanuens.is HUmans and machines annotating scholarly literature TheContentMine
Published on May 19, 2016 by PMR
about 10,000 scholarly articles ("papers") are published each day. Amanuens.is is a symbiont of ContentMine and Hypothes.is (both Shuttleworth projects/Fellows) which annotates theses using an array of controlled vocabularies ("dictionaries"). The results, in semantic form are used to annotate the original material. The talk had live demos and used plant chemistry as the examples
Published on May 18, 2016 by PMR
Talk to EBI Industry group on Open Software for chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. Covers examples of chemistry , wit demos, and argues that all public knowledge should be Openly accessible
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature TheContentMine
Published on Mar 16, 2016 by PMR
A plenary lecture to Cochrane Collaboration in Birmingham, on the value of automatically extracting knowledge. Covers the Why? How? What? Who? and problems and invites collaboration
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a plenary lecture to Cochrane Collaboration in Birmingham, on the value of automatically extracting knowledge. Covers the Why? How? What? Who? and problems and invites collaboration
Talk to OpenForum Academy (Open Forum Europe) about Text and data Mining. Four use cases selected fo non-scientists. Also discussion of latest on Europena copyright reform and TDM exceptions
High throughput mining of the scholarly literature TheContentMine
Published on Jun 7, 2016 by PMR
Talk given to statisticians in Tilburg, with emphasis on scholarly comms for detecting unusual features. Includes demo of Amanuens.is and image mining
Talk to EBI Industry group on Open Software for chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. Covers examples of chemistry , wit demos, and argues that all public knowledge should be Openly accessible
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from the LiteratureTheContentMine
Published on May 11, 2016 by PMR
ContentMine tools (and the Harvest alliance) can be used to search the literature for knowledge, especially in biomedicine. All tools are Open and shortly we shall be indexing the complete daily scholarly literature
Use of ContentMine tools on the Open Access subset of EuropePubMedCentral to discover new knowledge about the Zika virus.
Three slides have embedded movies - these do not show in slideshare and a first pass of this can be seen as a single file at https://vimeo.com/154705161
Towards Responsible Content Mining: A Cambridge perspectivepetermurrayrust
ContentMining (Text and Data Mining) is now legal in the UK for non-commercial research. Cambridge UK is a natural centre, with several components:
* a world-class University and Library
* many publishers, both Open Access and conventional
* a digital culture
* ContentMine - a leading proponent and practitioner of mining
Cambridge University Press welcomes content mining and invited PMR to give a talk there. He showed the technology and protocols and proposed a practical way forward in 2017
High throughput mining of the scholarly literature; talk at NIHpetermurrayrust
The scientific and medical literature contains huge amounts of valuable unused information. This talk shows how to discover it, extract, re-use and interpret it. Wikidata is presented as a key new tool and infrastructure. Everyone can become involved. However some of the barriers to use are sociopolitical and these are identified and discussed.
ContentMining for France and Europe; Lessons from 2 years in UKpetermurrayrust
I have spend 2 years carrying out Content Mining (aka Text and Data Mining) in the UK under the 2014 "Hargreaves" exception. This talk was given in Paris, to ADBU , after France had passed the law of the numeric Republique. I illustrate what worked in what did not and why and offer ideas to France and Europe
Liberating facts from the scientific literature - Jisc Digifest 2016 TheContentMine
Published on Mar 4, 2016 by PMR
Text and data mining (TDM) techniques can be applied to a wide range of materials, from published research papers, books and theses, to cultural heritage materials, digitised collections, administrative and management reports and documentation, etc. Use cases include academic research, resource discovery and business intelligence.
This workshop will show the value and benefits of TDM techniques and demonstrate how ContentMine aims to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature, and ContentMine will provide a hands on demo on a topical and accessible scientific/medical subject.
An overview of Text and Data Mining (ContentMining) including live demonstrations. The fundamentals: discover, scrape, normalize , facet/index, analyze, publish are exemplified using the recent Zika outbreak. Mining covers textual and non-textual content and examples of chemistry and phylogenetic tress are given.
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from the Literaturepetermurrayrust
ContentMine tools (and the Harvest alliance) can be used to search the literature for knowledge, especially in biomedicine. All tools are Open and shortly we shall be indexing the complete daily scholarly literature
Published on Feb 07, 2016 by PMR
Use of ContentMine tools on the Open Access subset of EuropePubMedCentral to discover new knowledge about the Zika virus. Includes clips of the software in action
Can machines understand the scientific literaturepetermurrayrust
With over 5000 scientific articles per day we need machines to help us understand the content. This material is to be used at an interactive session for the Science Society at Trinity College Cambridge UK
The scientific scholarly literature now contains many millions of articles. The contain semi-structured information of high quality and veracity. We show how this resource can be converted to a universal Wikicite format and full-text indexed against Wikidata dictionaries. We now have > 5 million bibliographic records and over 200 dictionaries based in Wikidata properties and queriable by SPARQL.
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature TheContentMine
Published on Mar 16, 2016 by PMR
A plenary lecture to Cochrane Collaboration in Birmingham, on the value of automatically extracting knowledge. Covers the Why? How? What? Who? and problems and invites collaboration
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literaturepetermurrayrust
a plenary lecture to Cochrane Collaboration in Birmingham, on the value of automatically extracting knowledge. Covers the Why? How? What? Who? and problems and invites collaboration
Talk to OpenForum Academy (Open Forum Europe) about Text and data Mining. Four use cases selected fo non-scientists. Also discussion of latest on Europena copyright reform and TDM exceptions
High throughput mining of the scholarly literature TheContentMine
Published on Jun 7, 2016 by PMR
Talk given to statisticians in Tilburg, with emphasis on scholarly comms for detecting unusual features. Includes demo of Amanuens.is and image mining
Talk to EBI Industry group on Open Software for chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. Covers examples of chemistry , wit demos, and argues that all public knowledge should be Openly accessible
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from the LiteratureTheContentMine
Published on May 11, 2016 by PMR
ContentMine tools (and the Harvest alliance) can be used to search the literature for knowledge, especially in biomedicine. All tools are Open and shortly we shall be indexing the complete daily scholarly literature
Use of ContentMine tools on the Open Access subset of EuropePubMedCentral to discover new knowledge about the Zika virus.
Three slides have embedded movies - these do not show in slideshare and a first pass of this can be seen as a single file at https://vimeo.com/154705161
Towards Responsible Content Mining: A Cambridge perspectivepetermurrayrust
ContentMining (Text and Data Mining) is now legal in the UK for non-commercial research. Cambridge UK is a natural centre, with several components:
* a world-class University and Library
* many publishers, both Open Access and conventional
* a digital culture
* ContentMine - a leading proponent and practitioner of mining
Cambridge University Press welcomes content mining and invited PMR to give a talk there. He showed the technology and protocols and proposed a practical way forward in 2017
High throughput mining of the scholarly literature; talk at NIHpetermurrayrust
The scientific and medical literature contains huge amounts of valuable unused information. This talk shows how to discover it, extract, re-use and interpret it. Wikidata is presented as a key new tool and infrastructure. Everyone can become involved. However some of the barriers to use are sociopolitical and these are identified and discussed.
ContentMining for France and Europe; Lessons from 2 years in UKpetermurrayrust
I have spend 2 years carrying out Content Mining (aka Text and Data Mining) in the UK under the 2014 "Hargreaves" exception. This talk was given in Paris, to ADBU , after France had passed the law of the numeric Republique. I illustrate what worked in what did not and why and offer ideas to France and Europe
Liberating facts from the scientific literature - Jisc Digifest 2016 TheContentMine
Published on Mar 4, 2016 by PMR
Text and data mining (TDM) techniques can be applied to a wide range of materials, from published research papers, books and theses, to cultural heritage materials, digitised collections, administrative and management reports and documentation, etc. Use cases include academic research, resource discovery and business intelligence.
This workshop will show the value and benefits of TDM techniques and demonstrate how ContentMine aims to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature, and ContentMine will provide a hands on demo on a topical and accessible scientific/medical subject.
An overview of Text and Data Mining (ContentMining) including live demonstrations. The fundamentals: discover, scrape, normalize , facet/index, analyze, publish are exemplified using the recent Zika outbreak. Mining covers textual and non-textual content and examples of chemistry and phylogenetic tress are given.
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from the Literaturepetermurrayrust
ContentMine tools (and the Harvest alliance) can be used to search the literature for knowledge, especially in biomedicine. All tools are Open and shortly we shall be indexing the complete daily scholarly literature
Published on Feb 07, 2016 by PMR
Use of ContentMine tools on the Open Access subset of EuropePubMedCentral to discover new knowledge about the Zika virus. Includes clips of the software in action
Can machines understand the scientific literaturepetermurrayrust
With over 5000 scientific articles per day we need machines to help us understand the content. This material is to be used at an interactive session for the Science Society at Trinity College Cambridge UK
The scientific scholarly literature now contains many millions of articles. The contain semi-structured information of high quality and veracity. We show how this resource can be converted to a universal Wikicite format and full-text indexed against Wikidata dictionaries. We now have > 5 million bibliographic records and over 200 dictionaries based in Wikidata properties and queriable by SPARQL.
Asking the scientific literature to tell us about metabolismpetermurrayrust
Talk to Lhasa Ltd (a world leader in predicting drug metabolism and toxicity. Uses the scientific literature to answer questions on metabolism, chemical transformation. Almost all of the data in a paper can be queried.
Architecture of ContentMine Components contentmine.orgpetermurrayrust
This is the evolving architecture of ContentMine (contentmine.org) architecture. It includes an overview ( slide #2, ) showing getpapers, quickscrape, norma and ami.
The key container is the CTree and the architecture shows where components are added or transformed to this.
These slides are dated and may be out-of-date wrt code. Some diagrams are autogenerated from *.dot files.
Please use http://discuss.contentmine.org/c/software as the main source of up-to-date info. Feel free to ask questions, offer help, critique, etc.
All s/w is Open (BSD, Apache2)
Asking the scientific literature to tell us about metabolismpetermurrayrust
Talk at Lhasa (https://www.lhasalimited.org/) a leading organization for "in silico prediction and database systems for use in metabolism, toxicology and related sciences". ContentMine software can extract data from papers on compound metabolism in reusable semantic form, including metabolic pathways, pharmacokinetic data.
We have developed image processing techniques to extract data from diagrams used in science and scientific publications. These slides were presented at a workshop session for the Cambridge MPhil in Computational biology. There is an overview of the main techniques for cleaning diagrams, such as thresholding, binarization, edge detection and thinning. Examples are given from plots, phylogenetic trees, chemistry and neuroscience spikes. All software is Open Source and most is Java
Basics of ContentMining presented to Synthetic Biologists. This was followed by a lively discussion of what components could be extracted from the literature
Published on May 18, 2015 by PMR
Basics of ContentMining presented to Synthetic Biologists. This was followed by a lively discussion of what components could be extracted from the literature
Published on Oct 22, 2015 by PMR
Talk to OpenForum Academy (Open Forum Europe) about Text and data Mining. Four use cases selected fo non-scientists. Also discussion of latest on Europena copyright reform and TDM exceptions
The scientific and medical literature is a vast resource of knowledge, but it needs turning into semantic FAIR form. The ContentMine can do this and we presented a rapid overview of the potential
Liberating facts from the scientific literature - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
Text and data mining (TDM) techniques can be applied to a wide range of materials, from published research papers, books and theses, to cultural heritage materials, digitised collections, administrative and management reports and documentation, etc. Use cases include academic research, resource discovery and business intelligence.
This workshop will show the value and benefits of TDM techniques and demonstrate how ContentMine aims to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature, and ContentMine will provide a hands on demo on a topical and accessible scientific/medical subject.
contentmine.org (funded by Shuttleworth Foundation) has developed tools and workshops to allow anyone to mine scientific content. This 10-minute presentation at Wellcome Trust encourages you to become involved - no previous knowledge required.
Published on Mar 05, 2015 by PMR
contentmine.org (funded by Shuttleworth Foundation) has developed tools and workshops to allow anyone to mine scientific content. This 10-minute presentation at Wellcome Trust encourages you to become involved - no previous knowledge required.
Automatic Extraction of Science and Medicine from the scholarly literatureTheContentMine
Published on Jun 04, 2015 by PMR
Many scientists have to extract many facts out the scholarly literature - to evaluate other work or to extract useful collections of facts. This shows the approach, especially for systematic reviews of animal or clinical trials
Automatic Extraction of Science and Medicine from the scholarly literaturepetermurrayrust
Many scientists have to extract many facts out the scholarly literature - to evaluate other work or to extract useful collections of facts. This shows the approach, especially for systematic reviews of animal or clinical trials
Can Computers understand the scientific literature (includes compscie material)petermurrayrust
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This chunk is PMR with a large break in the middle for SH and AH talks.
I cover Global Challenges, knowledge equity, semantics of scientific articles, Wikidata, Data Extraction from images, and ethics/politics.
Answer: Yes, technically. No, politically as the Publisher-Academic Complex will block it.
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Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
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Mining the scientific literature for plants and chemistry
1. Mining science from the plant
literature
ContentMine
Open Plant Forum, Norwich,
UK, 2016-07-27
Peter Murray-Rust
[1]University of Cambridge [2]TheContentMine
10,000 scholarly publications every day.
How many relate to plants?
2. (2x digital music industry!)
Non-profit
Downloading several thousand
papers per day and making search
results open for everyone
http://contentmine.org
Downloadable Open source
33. of plant-microbe interactions. Richard Smith-Unna, PhD student, Plant Sci
Cambridge. Peter Murray-Rust, a (retired but highly active) chemist in Cam
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specifically for the workshop on the basis that “anyone can run it and get
“. Everyone was asked to install the software on whatever platform they c
used (Mac, Windows, Unix). There were few problems and most people w
within an hour. A typical example was “find all you can about diseases of o
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500 papers, which were further filtered for chemicals, diseases, species, e
displayed within a minute or two, significantly increasing the speed of kno
driven scientific discovery. We also jointly made considerable improveme
software and have agreed to meet regularly to take this forward.