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. 2018 Jul 13;14(10):1232–1244. doi: 10.7150/ijbs.24612

Table 2.

Text mining tools for drug repositioning.

Name Class Input Output Description Web Site Ref
Biovista Static Biological knowledge Gene-protein relationships A mining framework to extract gene-protein relationships. http://www.biovista.com/ 68
BioWisdom Static Ontology Drug-disease, drug-target relationships A platform to discover novel biological entity relationships. http://www.biowisdom.com 39
FACTA+ Static Tekst Abstracts and linked concepts A system to find associated concepts based on a user query http://www.nactem.ac.uk/facta/cepts based on a user query 102
EDGAR Static UMLS terms Drug-gene relationships A system to extract relationships
between drugs and genes involved in cancer using syntactic
analysis
https://www.sec.gov/ 103
PolySearch Dynamic Bio-entities Drug-disease, Drug-gene relationships A web service to extract links between biological terms http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca 41
TextFlow Dynamic Document Knowledge A web-based text mining and
natural language processing platform
http://textflows.org/ 42
EXTRACT2 Static Bio-entities Entity relationships A text mining-based tool to
map biological entities to ontology/taxonomy entries
http://extract.jensenlab.org/ 104
Anni 2.0 Static Bio-entities Linked concepts An ontology interface of a text mining tool to extract conceptsrelationships http://biosemantics.org/anni 69
DrugQuest Static Drugs Drug-drug relations A knowledge discovery tool todetect drug-drug relationships http://bioinformatics.med.uoc.gr 40
MaNER Dynamic Medical Document Relevant entities A rule-based system to mine relevant entities in medical documents - 43
BEST Dynamic Biomedical Literature Relevant bio-entities A knowledge discovery system to extract relevant bio-entities. http://best.korea.ac.kr. 44
Alibaba Dynamic Bio-entities Linked concepts A tool to fit a PubMed query as a
graphical network
- 45