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. 2013 Oct 11;4:28. doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-28

Table 4.

This table gives a schema for categorizing terms into different types that help to sort and count the most frequent false positive and false negative results

Label Description Semantics Relevance Examples
1C
1 character
Undefined
Artefact
N
2C
2 characters
Undefined
Margin
T3, PU, LH
a-PG
Acronym PGN
Confirmed by UniProtKb
Core
Ras, c-fos, Wnt
ea-PG
Extended a-PG
a-PG with preserved semantics
Margin
Ras gene, p53 protein, Src family
xa-PG
Expanded a-PG
a-PG with modified semantics
Artefact
p53 mutations
PGT
Protein/gene term
Confirmed by UniProtKb
Core
E-cadherin, beta-catenin, glucocorticoid receptor
BMT
Biomedical term
Specific to biomedical scientific text, excluding PGT
Margin
olymerase, prion, IgM
GE General English term Occurring in non-scientific text Artefact Plasma, renal, inhibitor, antibodies