Scientific literature on cancer is huge, and with thousands of new publications appearing each month, it has become increasingly difficult for cancer researchers to stay up to date with developments in their own field. Researchers from Professor Anna Korhonen’s Group at the University of Cambridge Language Technology Laboratory have teamed up with the groups of Dr Masashi Narita at the CRUK Cambridge Institute and Professor Ulla Stenius at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden to create a new computational tool, called LION LBD, that addresses this problem. The tool, based on AI technology, not only helps scientists keep abreast with published discoveries on cancer, but also helps them make new discoveries by combining what is already known in published literature. Facilitating large-scale hypothesis testing and generation from huge collections of biomedical literature, LION LBD is the first literature-based discovery system developed for the needs of cancer biology. It is freely available at http://lbd.lionproject.net.
