BioCreative-2012 Virtual Issue

BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology is an international community-wide effort for evaluating text mining and information extraction systems applied to the biological domain (http://www.biocreative.org/). The Challenge Evaluations and the accompanying BioCreative Workshops bring together the text mining and biology communities to drive the development of text mining systems that can be integrated into the biocuration workflow and the knowledge discovery process. To address the current barriers in using text mining in biology, BioCreative has further been conducting user requirement analysis, user-based evaluations and fostering standard development for text mining tool re-use and integration. This DATABASE virtual issue captures the major results from the BioCreative-2012 Workshop on Interactive Text Mining in the Biocuration Workflow and is the fifth special issue devoted to BioCreative.