Allie: a database and a search service of abbreviations and long forms.
Allie: a database and a search service of abbreviations and long forms.
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DOI：
10.1093/database/bar013
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Takagi T
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作者：
Yamamoto Y;Yamaguchi A;Bono H;Takagi T
许多缩写在文献中使用，特别是在生命科学中，多义缩写经常出现，使得读者难以阅读和理解超出其专业知识范围的科学论文。因此，我们开发了Allie，一个缩略语及其长形式的数据库和搜索服务（a.k.a.完整的形式或定义）。Allie在我们根据MEDLINE中的所有标题和摘要生成的数据库中搜索缩写及其相应的长格式。当用户查询匹配缩写时，Allie返回查询的所有潜在长格式沿着书目数据（即标题和出版年份）。此外，对于每个候选人，共同出现的缩写和研究领域，它经常出现在MEDLINE数据显示。此函数帮助用户了解缩写出现的上下文。为了处理同义的长形式，我们使用一个名为GENA的字典，它包含特定领域的术语，如基因、蛋白质或疾病名称沿着及其同义信息。概念上相同的领域特定术语被视为一个术语，然后考虑到它们在MEDLINE中的出现，对概念上相同的扩展长形式对进行分组。为了跟上不断引入的新缩写，Allie有一个自动更新系统。此外，每周构建并更新缩略语及其长格式及其相应PubMed ID的数据库。数据库URL：Allie服务可在http://allie.dbcls.jp/上获得。
Many abbreviations are used in the literature especially in the life sciences, and polysemous abbreviations appear frequently, making it difficult to read and understand scientific papers that are outside of a reader’s expertise. Thus, we have developed Allie, a database and a search service of abbreviations and their long forms (a.k.a. full forms or definitions). Allie searches for abbreviations and their corresponding long forms in a database that we have generated based on all titles and abstracts in MEDLINE. When a user query matches an abbreviation, Allie returns all potential long forms of the query along with their bibliographic data (i.e. title and publication year). In addition, for each candidate, co-occurring abbreviations and a research field in which it frequently appears in the MEDLINE data are displayed. This function helps users learn about the context in which an abbreviation appears. To deal with synonymous long forms, we use a dictionary called GENA that contains domain-specific terms such as gene, protein or disease names along with their synonymic information. Conceptually identical domain-specific terms are regarded as one term, and then conceptually identical abbreviation-long form pairs are grouped taking into account their appearance in MEDLINE. To keep up with new abbreviations that are continuously introduced, Allie has an automatic update system. In addition, the database of abbreviations and their long forms with their corresponding PubMed IDs is constructed and updated weekly. Database URL: The Allie service is available at http://allie.dbcls.jp/.