PhenoMiner database

PhenoMiner is a research project aimed at the capture and encoding of phenotypes in the scientific literature. This should provide insights into the complex processes involved in human diseases as well as enabling semantic interoperability with existing biomedical ontologies such as those that describe human anatomy, genetics and behaviours.

The PhenoMiner database contains the results of an FP7 Marie Curie fellowship project on text/data-mining technology - natural language processing, machine learning and conceptual analysis. It builds on insights gained from semantic parsing to extract structured information about phenotypes from whole sentences - in contrast to existing techniques which often apply string matching. The system exploits the wealth of scientific data locked within the scientific literature in databases such as PubMed Central and Europe PMC to extract the semantic vocabulary of phenotypes that scientists use.