The first publicly available system reported to handle inter-species gene mention normalization.
Highlights:
Our method uses extensive background knowledge on genes to resolve ambiguous names to EntrezGene identifiers.
On a benchmark set derived from BioCreative 1 and 2 data that contains genes from 13 species, GNAT achieves an F-measure of 81.4% (90.8% precision at 73.8% recall).
For the single-species task, we report an F-measure of 85.4% on human genes.
