Table 3 .
Number (Percentage) of Undefined Abbreviations from Medical and Biological Articles That Can Be Mapped to Each and Any of Four Abbreviation Databases.
| Abbreviation Database | Medical* | Biological† | Medical and Biological‡ |
|---|---|---|---|
| GenBank LocusLink | 3 (10) | 4 (13) | 7 (12) |
| swissprot | 2 ( 7) | 8 (27) | 10 (17) |
| LRABR | 15 (50) | 10 (33) | 25 (42) |
| Bioabacus | 6 (20) | 12 (40) | 18 (30) |
| Any of the four databases: | 17 (57) | 24 (80) | 41 (68) |
*The number (percentage) of abbreviations from medical articles that can be mapped to each database and to any of the four databases.
†The number (percentage) of abbreviations from biological articles that can be mapped to each database and to any of the four databases.
‡The number (percentage) of abbreviations from both medical and biological articles that can be mapped to each database and to any of the four databases.