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Table 1 List of available operations of the CoPub Web Service

From: Identification of new biomarker candidates for glucocorticoid induced insulin resistance using literature mining

Name

Operation name

Input

Output

Description

Get genes

Get _genes

Gene name, gene identifier

Biological identifier(s), with gene specific information

Each gene in CoPub belongs to an internal identifier (biological identifier). Get _genes converts the input gene to such a Biological identifier. This biological identifier serves as an input for subsequent operations.

Get Keywords

Get _keywords

Keyword

Biological identifier(s), with keyword specific information

Retrieves for a set of keywords, the Biological identifiers to which these keywords belong in CoPub. These biological identifiers serve as an input for subsequent operations.

Get references

Get _references

Biological identifier(s)

Literature references

Given a Biological identifier, retrieves all abstracts in which the term occurs.

Get literature neighbours

Get _literature _neighbours

Biological identifier(s)

Literature neighbors

Given a Biological identifier, retrieves a list of keywords which are mentioned in the literature together with the input term.

Get enriched keywords

Get _enriched _keywords

List of gene identifiers

List of enriched keywords

For a list of genes, this operation calculates a keyword overrepresentation.

Get literature network

Get _literature _network

Biological identifier(s)

SVG / Cytoscape network

For a set of genes, the operation creates a network of genes.

Get categories

Get _Categories

-

List of categories

Returns a list of categories of terms in CoPub

Get chips

Get _chips

-

List of microarrays

Returns a list of available Affymetrix chip names in CoPub.

Version

Version

-

Version of code and literature

Returns the version of the code and literature.

Selftest

Selftest

-

Diagnostic information

-

  1. Biological identifiers are used by CoPub to identify biological concepts in the system. Each biological concept has a unique identifier.