Predicting future scientific discoveries based on a networked analysis of the past literature

Meena Nagarajan, Angela D. Wilkins, Benjamin J. Bachman, Ilya B. Novikov, Shenghua Bao, Peter J. Haas, María E. Terrón-Díaz, Sumit Bhatia, Anbu K. Adikesavan, Jacques J. Labrie, Sam Regenbogen, Christie M. Buchovecky, Curtis R. Pickering, Linda Kato, Andreas M. Lisewski, Ana Lelescu, Houyin Zhang, Stephen Boyer, Griff Weber, Ying ChenLawrence Donehower, Scott Spangler, Olivier Lichtarge

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Abstract

We present KnIT, the Knowledge Integration Toolkit, a system for accelerating scientific discovery and predicting previously unknown protein-protein interactions. Such predictions enrich biological research and are pertinent to drug discovery and the understanding of disease. Unlike a prior study, KnIT is now fully automated and demonstrably scalable. It extracts information from the scientific literature, automatically identifying direct and indirect references to protein interactions, which is knowledge that can be represented in network form. It then reasons over this network with techniques such as matrix factorization and graph diffusion to predict new, previously unknown interactions. The accuracy and scope of KnIT's knowledge extractions are validated using comparisons to structured, manually curated data sources as well as by performing retrospective studies that predict subsequent literature discoveries using literature available prior to a given date. The KnIT methodology is a step towards automated hypothesis generation from text, with potential application to other scientific domains.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD 2015 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2019-2028
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450336642
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 10 2015
Event21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2015 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Aug 10 2015Aug 13 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Volume2015-August

Other

Other21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2015
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period8/10/158/13/15

Keywords

  • Hypothesis generation
  • Scientific discovery
  • Text mining

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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