Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2017
Abstract
Hypothesis generation is becoming a crucial time-saving technique which allows biomedical researchers to quickly discover implicit connections between important concepts. Typically, these systems operate on domain-specific fractions of public medical data. MOLIERE, in contrast, utilizes information from over 24.5 million documents. At the heart of our approach lies a multi-modal and multi-relational network of biomedical objects extracted from several heterogeneous datasets from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These objects include but are not limited to scientific papers, keywords, genes, proteins, diseases, and diagnoses. We model hypotheses using Latent Dirichlet Allocation applied on abstracts found near shortest paths discovered within this network, and demonstrate the effectiveness of MOLIERE by performing hypothesis generation on historical data. Our network, implementation, and resulting data are all publicly available for the broad scientific community.
Recommended Citation
Sybrandt, Justin; Shtutman, Michael; and Safro, Ilya, "MOLIERE: Automatic Biomedical Hypothesis Generation System" (2017). Publications. 30.
https://open.clemson.edu/computing_pubs/30
Comments
Accepted manuscript for:
KDD 2017
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada
August 13-17, 2017