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- Jeanet ManteJeanet ManteUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United StatesMore by Jeanet Mante
- Yikai HaoYikai HaoUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United StatesMore by Yikai Hao
- Jacob JettJacob JettUniversity of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United StatesMore by Jacob Jett
- Udayan JoshiUdayan JoshiUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United StatesMore by Udayan Joshi
- Kevin KeatingKevin KeatingWorcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusettes 01609, United StatesMore by Kevin Keating
- Xiang LuXiang LuUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United StatesMore by Xiang Lu
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- Nicholas E. RodriguezNicholas E. RodriguezVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United StatesMore by Nicholas E. Rodriguez
- Jiawei TangJiawei TangUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United StatesMore by Jiawei Tang
- Logan Terry
- Xuanyu WuXuanyu WuUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United StatesMore by Xuanyu Wu
- Eric Yu
- J. Stephen DownieJ. Stephen DownieUniversity of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United StatesMore by J. Stephen Downie
- Bridget T. McInnesBridget T. McInnesVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United StatesMore by Bridget T. McInnes
- Mai H. NguyenMai H. NguyenUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United StatesMore by Mai H. Nguyen
- Brandon SepulvadoBrandon SepulvadoNORC at the University of Chicago Bethesda, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United StatesMore by Brandon Sepulvado
- Eric M. YoungEric M. YoungWorcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusettes 01609, United StatesMore by Eric M. Young
- Chris J. Myers*Chris J. Myers*E-mail: [email protected]University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United StatesMore by Chris J. Myers
Abstract

The Synthetic Biology Knowledge System (SBKS) is an instance of the SynBioHub repository that includes text and data information that has been mined from papers published in ACS Synthetic Biology. This paper describes the SBKS curation framework that is being developed to construct the knowledge stored in this repository. The text mining pipeline performs automatic annotation of the articles using natural language processing techniques to identify salient content such as key terms, relationships between terms, and main topics. The data mining pipeline performs automatic annotation of the sequences extracted from the supplemental documents with the genetic parts used in them. Together these two pipelines link genetic parts to papers describing the context in which they are used. Ultimately, SBKS will reduce the time necessary for synthetic biologists to find the information necessary to complete their designs.
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