PubMeth: creating the database reviewed methylation database in cancer
PubMeth focusses on methylation data, found in the literature. How was it created?
It is built with the power of textmining,
a good start to obtain complete, up-to-date records.
Advantages of such an approach are for instance:
multiple aliasses of a gene are searched, as a whole bunch of methylation-related keywords and detection technologies.
Sorting and marking of the results speeds up the annotation process
Afterwards, records are manually annotated, making this a high quality database with the data as accurate and complete as possible
Figure, illustrating the initial filling-up process: