BioCreative VII Challenge and Workshop CFP

The workshop will take place sometime during the first two weeks of November 2021. The dates and modality are not set yet, however there will be a virtual component.

BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology is a community-wide effort for evaluating text mining and information extraction systems applied to the biological domain. BioCreative has been an invaluable source for advancing state-of-the-art text mining methods by providing reference datasets and a collegial environment to develop and evaluate these methods in both shared and interactive modes. The sudden spread of COVID-19 has triggered an unexpected pressure on the biomedical community to quickly identify potential treatments by repurposing existing drugs or identifying new chemicals with anti-Sars-CoV-2 activity. Thus, BioCreative VII will focus around detection of chemicals, drugs and related substances with three tracks: Track 1 (DrugProt) focuses on the detection of interactions between chemicals/drugs/substances and genes/proteins in abstracts, Track 2: (NLM Chem track) focuses on detecting chemical names and their MeSH encoding in full-length articles and Track 3: Medications in Tweets focuses on extracting medication mentions from social media.
In addition, COVID-19 has triggered the development of multiple text mining tools to support ongoing research efforts that await community feedback. Thus, we are offering an interactive track, Track 4, to provide an environment for tools to be reviewed by users and get their feedback on utility and usability.

Here are more details about the tracks. Click on the Track number for accessing track specific pages:

Track 1- DrugProt:Text mining drug/chemical-protein interactions
Organizers: Martin Krallinger, Alfonso Valencia
DrugProt will explore recognition of chemical-protein entity relations from abstracts. The aim of the DrugProt track is to promote the development and evaluation of systems that are able to automatically detect relations between chemical compounds/drug and genes/proteins. We have therefore generated a manually annotated corpus, the DrugProt corpus, where domain experts have exhaustively labeled: (a) all chemical and gene mentions, and (b) all binary relationships between them corresponding to a specific set of biologically relevant relation types (DrugProt relation classes).

Track 2- NLM-Chem Track: Full text Chemical Identification and Indexing in PubMed articles
Organizers: Rezarta Islamaj, Robert Leaman, and Zhiyong Lu, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Current chemical concept recognition tools have demonstrated significantly lower performance for in full-text articles than in abstracts. Improving automated full-text chemical concept recognition can substantially accelerate manual indexing and curation and advance downstream NLP tasks such as relevant article retrieval. The NLM-CHEM task will consist of two sub-tasks, focusing on (1) identifying chemicals in full-text articles (i.e. named entity recognition and normalization) and (2) ranking chemical concepts for full-text document indexing. The task will use the recently released NLM-CHEM corpus, consisting of 150 full-text articles, with ~5000 unique chemical names mapped to ~2,000 MeSH identifiers.

Track 3- Automatic extraction of medication names in tweets
Organizers: Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Davy Weissenbacher, Ivan Flores, Karen O’Connor
The goal of this task is to extract the spans that mention a medication or dietary supplement in tweets. The dataset consists of all tweets posted by 212 Twitter users during their pregnancy. This data represents the natural and highly imbalanced distribution of drug mentions in Twitter, with only approximately 0.2% of the tweets mentioning a medication. Training and evaluating a sequence labeler on this data set will closely model the detection of drugs in tweets in practice. Click here for more information.

Track 4- COVID-19 text mining tool interactive demo (more info available soon)
Organizers: Cecilia Arighi, Andrew Chatr-Aryamontri, Lynette Hirschman, Martin Krallinger, Karen Ross, Tonia Korves
COVID-19 text mining tool interactive demo is a demonstration task, and will focus on tools specifically conceived to support COVID-19 research efforts. Similar to previous interactive tasks (e.g., PMID:27589961), tools will be reviewed by the research community, providing feedback on utility and usability. More details including minimum requirements will be made available soon.

TEAM REGISTRATION

Teams can participate in one or more of these tracks. Team registration will continue until final commitment is requested by the individual tracks.
To register a team go to the team registration page. If you have restrictions accessing Google forms please send e-mail to BiocreativeChallenge@gmail.com.
Note: The BioCreative site has a Team page link. Please ignore it. Registration is done via Google forms this time.

BIOCREATIVE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA

Andrew Chatr-Aryamontri, University of Montreal, Canada

Rezarta Dogan, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA

Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA

Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Robert Leaman, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA

Zhiyong Lu, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA

Karen Ross, Georgetown University Medical School, USA

Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Davy Weissenbacher, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Text mining chemical-protein interactions (CHEMPROT) corpus, including:

• ChemProt sample set
• ChemProt training set
• ChemProt development set
• ChemProt test set

The BioCreative VI workshop will be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bethesda - Bethesda, Maryland during October 18-20, 2017.

• Registration
• Travel Awards
• Scientific Program
• Venue and Access
• Work Submissions
• Accommodations
• Visas
• Sponsors
• Proceedings

Registration

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Registration to BioCreative VI Workshop is now closed

Registration includes:

Breakfast

Attendance to workshop

Coffee breaks

Lunch

Tour to the National Library of Medicine

Registration is in US dollars:

Registration Type	Early fee (until September 18)	Late fee (after September 18)
Student/post-doc	$180	$250
Academic/non-profit/Government	$330	$400
Industry	$400	$470

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Travel Awards

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Funds are available for US participants for the amount up to $700 to participate in the BioCreative workshop. To apply complete the application available here by September 1st. Women, under-represented minorities, students, and post-doctoral fellows are encouraged to apply. Submissions are now closed

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Scientific Program

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Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Bethesda, Maryland
Talks: Ballroom D (2nd floor)
Posters: Balance room (2nd floor)

The scientific program includes the talks related to the individual tracks, a panel about Innovation in biomedical digital curation, a general session for BioCreative related topics, 2 keynote talks and a poster session. Detailed agenda is shown below

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

08:00 - 12:00	Registration (EMC foyer, 2nd floor)
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast (EMC foyer, 2nd floor)
09:00 - 09:15	Workshop opening
09:15 - 10:40	TRACK 1 Interactive Bio-ID Assignment 9:15-9:25 Introduction to Bio_ID track (Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware) 9:25-9:40 Introduction to SourceData and data set (Thomas Lemberger, SourceData) 9:40-9:55 Overview of Bio_ID results – batch results (Lynette Hirschman, MITRE) 9:55-10:05 A Neural Named Entity Recognition Approach to Biological Entity Identification (Emily Sheng, Information Sciences Institute/USC) 10:05-10:15 A Study on Identification of Organism and micro-RNA Mentions in Figure Captions (Po-Ting Lai, National Central University) 10:15-10:40 Next steps and discussion
10:40 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:30	Panel on Innovation on Digital Curation (Moderators: Fabio Rinaldi and Cecilia Arighi) 11:00-11:10 Julio Collado-Vides, UNAM- Natural language processing to enhance accessibility to knowledge in RegulonDB 11:10-11:20 Thomas Lemberger, EMBO- Data transparency in scientific publishing 11:20-11:30 Zhiyong Lu, NCBI- Text mining for improving the prioritization, curation, and integration of knowledge for clinically relevant variants 11:30-11:40 Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI- How can text mining scale to meet diverse and precise curation needs? 11:40-12:30 Open discussion
12:30 - 13:40	Lunch (Restaurant first floor)
13:40 - 15:40	TRACK 4 Mining protein interactions and mutations for precision medicine 1:40-2:10 Overview of the Precision Medicine Track (Rezarta Islamaj Dogan) 2:10-2:30 Identifying Relevant Literature for Precision Medicine Using Deep Neural Networks (Sergio Matos) 2:30- 2:50 Exploring a Deep Learning Pipeline for the BioCreative VI Precision Medicine Task (Tung Tran) 2:50- 3:10 Mining protein interactions affected by mutations using a NLP based machine learning approach (Albert Steppi and Jinchan Qu) 3:10-3:30 Document Triage and Relation Extraction for Protein-Protein Interactions affected by Mutations (Dina Demner Fushman for Karin Verspoor and team) 3:30-3:40 Poster spotlight and Open discussion
15:40 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Keynote- Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director of National Library of Medicine, NIH Towards a future of data-powered health Zip file
17:00 - 18:00	Panel on Funding Stakeholders (Moderator: Cathy Wu) Susan Gregurick, NIGMS, NIH Jennifer Weller, NSF Jane Ye, NLM, NIH Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI

Thursday, October 19, 2017

08:00 - 12:00	Registration (EMC foyer, 2nd floor)
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast (EMC foyer, 2nd floor)
09:00 - 10:15	General session 9:00-9:20 Efficient and Accurate Entity Recognition for Biomedical Text (Fabio Rinaldi, U. Zurich) 9:20-9:40 iTextMine: Integrated Text Mining System for Large-Scale Knowledge Extraction from Literature (Jia Ren, U. Delaware) 9:40-10:00 Large-scale Automated Reading with Reach Discovers New Cancer Driving Mechanisms (Dane Bell, U. Arizona) 10:00-10:20 Evaluating without a Gold Standard (Lynette Hirschman, MITRE)
10:20 - 10:40	Break
10:40 - 12:30	TRACK 2 Text-mining services for Kinome Curation 10:40-11:10 Kinome Track Overview (Julien Gobeill & Patrick Ruch, SIB) 11:10-11:35 Assisting Document Triage for Human Kinome Curation via Machine Learning (Alan Hsu, NCBI) 11:35-11:55 KinDER: A Biocuration Tool for Extracting Kinase Knowledge from Biomedical Literature (Adam Morrone & Daniel Dopp, Montana State University) 11:55-12:20 Discussion
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch (Restaurant first floor)
13:45 - 15:45	TRACK 3 Extraction of causal network information using the Biological Expression Language 1:45 - 2:15 BEL Track - Overview and Results (Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany) 2:15 - 2:30 Task 1 - BELMiner – Information extraction system to extract BEL relationships (Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Mayo Clinic, USA) 2:30 - 2:45 Task 1 - Generating Biological Expression Language Statements with Pipeline Approach and Different Parsers (Po-Ting Lai, National Central University, Taiwan) 2:45 - 3:00 Task 1 - Automatic Extraction of BEL-Statements based on Neural Networks (Mehdi Ali, University of Bonn, Germany) 3:00 - 3:15 Task 2 - Semantic Information Retrieval: Exploring dependency and word embedding features in biomedical Information Retrieval (Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Mayo Clinic, USA) 3:15 - 3:30 BEL Track - Next steps and discussion (Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany)
15:45 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Keynote- Dr. Hongfang Liu, Professor Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic Text mining in precision medicine: opportunities and challenges
17:00 - 19:00	Poster session and Reception

Friday, October 20, 2017

08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast (EMC foyer, 2nd floor)
08:30 - 10:30	TRACK 5 Text mining chemical-protein interactions 8:30-9:00 Overview of the Chemical-Protein relation extraction track (Martin Krallinger / Saber A. Akhondi (CNIO / Elsevier) 9:00-9:15 Chemical-protein relation extraction with SVM, CNN, RNN and ensemble systems (Yifan Peng, NCBI, NLM, NIH) 9:15-9:30 Extracting Chemical-Protein Interactions using Long Short-Term Memory Networks (Sérgio Matos, University of Aveiro, Portugal) 9:30-9:45 Attention based Neural Networks for Chemical Protein Relation Extraction (Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Mayo Clinic, USA) 9:45-10:00 Extracting protein-chemical compound interactions from literature (Pei-Yau Lung, Florida State University) 10:00-10:15 Knowledge-base-enriched relation extraction (Ignacio Tripodi, University of Colorado, Boulder) 10:15 - 10:30 CTCPI - Convolution Tree Kernel-based Chemical-Protein interaction detection (Po-Ting Lai, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:00	Tracks open discussion/closing
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch (Restaurant first floor)
13:00 - 15:30	Tour to the National Library of Medicine

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Work Submissions

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Submission of abstracts/papers should be done via Easychair at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bc6. Format for submission:PDF.

BioCreative VI proceedings will be published online and will be available at the time of the meeting.

We will invite selected works for full publication in the Database Journal Special Issue for BioCreative.

Track presentation submissions: Track participants should submit their work in the form of a short paper (up to 4 pages). See template with instructions here. Although template is a word document, the format for submission should be in PDF.

Submission deadline: please follow the dates described in the track you are participating

General session submissions: BioCreative VI will host a general session to provide an opportunity to discuss related work to BioCreative topics, including data set preparation, evaluation, biomedical information extraction. Then, we are soliciting submission of your bioNLP work that is related to any of these topics in the form of a 2 page abstracts (see template with instructions can be found here). Although template is a word document, the format for submission should be in PDF. Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation during the corresponding session.

Submission deadline September 17, 2017

POSTERS
Poster size 32"x40"

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Venue and Access

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Conference venue | Map

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bethesda - Washington DC
8120 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Phone: (301) 652-2000

Accommodations

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There are a number of rooms reserved for this event at the DoubleTree hotel with a special rate of US$219 per night. This special rate is available through September 22, 2017.
Guests can go online to the BioCreative hotel page reservation http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/W/WASBHDT-BC0-20171017 (Preferred)
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Guests can call 1-800-955-7359 and request the group rate for the BioCreative VI Conference or the Group SRP/Code: BC0.
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Go to the hotel main page www.bethesda.doubletree.com, click on the Reservations Tab, enter dates and on the Special Accounts Section enter BC0 for the Group/Convention Code.
The special rate applies for the nights 10/17/2017 through 10/20/2017.

Directions

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Map & Directions to the hotel from local airports:

The Doubletree Hotel in Bethesda is conveniently located near 3 airports. It is just 15 miles from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), 27 miles from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), and 38 miles from Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI). All three airports should have private shuttle services available. Fees for these services vary based on distance to the hotel.

Transportation options from DCA
Transportation options from IAD
Transportation options from BWI

Maps and directions

Parking

The hotel offers paid parking (rate $12 for day parking and $23 for overnight). There are also meter spaces and public parking throughout Bethesda area. To check parking places and rates click here

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Visas

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You are responsible to inquire about visa requirements to enter the US. General information about US visas can be found here. If you need a letter of invitation to attend the workshop please send email to bcviworkshop@gmail.com with subject: visa letter request.

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Sponsors

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BioCreative workshop is sponsored by

NIH/MIGMS Conference grant 1R13GM109648-01A1

NIH/MIGMS Supplement 2R01GM08064

Database, Oxford University Press

International Society for Biocuration

Elsevier

OpenMinted (654021) H2020 project

encomienda MINETAD-CNIO/OTG Sanidad Plan TL

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BioCreative VI Workshop Proceedings

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The proceedings is now available here

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