Identifying biological concepts from a protein-related corpus with a probabilistic topic model

摘要

BackgroundBiomedical literature, e.g., MEDLINE, contains a wealth of knowledge regarding functions of proteins. Major recurring biological concepts within such text corpora represent the domains of this body of knowledge. The goal of this research is to identify the major biological topics/concepts from a corpus of protein-related MEDLINE^© titles and abstracts by applying a probabilistic topic model.