Table 2.

Different types of explorable modalities available in the ‘Explore’ tab of the IBDDB

Tab	Details
aInflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Database	Curated database of 289 gene, contains 34 columns (concepts)
Knowledgebase	To explore the IBD-related titles and citations from PubMed literature. This includes sentences extracted from the literature, which show link to IBD
Biomedical entities	To explore biomedical entities linked to IBD by providing information about linked dictionary, frequency in the literature and the link to PubMed literature
Biomedical entities co-occurrence	Helps user to explore co-occurrence of biomedical entities linked to IBD. It allows to find co-mention of two entities in the published literature by selecting any two dictionaries (out of 11 listed). The relevant PubMed articles can also be retrieved for further exploration
Hypothesis explorer	Hypotheses explorer allows to identify new association among selected terms selected from different dictionaries (A–B and B–C are known and A–C are suggested links between biomedical entities)