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Lawrence Hunter is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Computer Science. The scientist's work involves significant contributions to the subfields of Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Genetics, and Information Systems and Management.

Their research topics include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Topic Modeling, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Hunter has co-authored extensively with several frequent collaborators, including Tiffany J. Callahan, William A. Baumgartner, Michael G. Kahn, Nicole Vasilevsky, and Tellen D. Bennett.

The scientist's publications appear predominantly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and UNC Libraries.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Lawrence Hunter include:

  • An open source knowledge graph ecosystem for the life sciences, 2024, Scientific Data
  • A Framework for Automated Construction of Heterogeneous Large-Scale Biomedical Knowledge Graphs, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BETA: a comprehensive benchmark for computational drug-target prediction, 2022, Briefings in Bioinformatics
  • Ontologizing health systems data at scale: making translational discovery a reality, 2023, npj Digital Medicine
  • Examining linguistic shifts between preprints and publications, 2022, PLoS Biology

Best Publications

  • EDGAR: Extraction of Drugs, Genes And Relations from the Biomedical Literature

    Thomas C. Rindflesch;Lorraine Tanabe;John N. Weinstein;Lawrence Hunter

  • Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition

    Larry Smith;Lorraine K Tanabe;Rie Johnson nee Ando;Cheng-Ju Kuo

  • Biomedical language processing: what's beyond PubMed?

    Lawrence Hunter;K. Bretonnel Cohen

  • Getting started in text mining.

    K Bretonnel Cohen;Lawrence E Hunter

  • MedMiner: an Internet text-mining tool for biomedical information, with application to gene expression profiling.

    L. Tanabe;U. Scherf;L. H. Smith;J. K. Lee

  • Manual curation is not sufficient for annotation of genomic databases

    William A. Baumgartner;K. Bretonnel Cohen;Lynne M. Fox;George Acquaah-Mensah

  • AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline

    Casimir A Kulikowski;Edward H Shortliffe;Leanne M Currie;Peter L Elkin

  • Concept annotation in the CRAFT corpus

    Michael Bada;Miriam Eckert;Donald Evans;Kristin Garcia

  • Transcending inductive category formation in learning

    Roger C. Schank;Gregg C. Collins;Lawrence E. Hunter

  • Artificial intelligence and molecular biology

    Lawrence Hunter

  • OpenDMAP: an open source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge regarding protein transport, protein interactions and cell-type-specific gene expression.

    Lawrence Hunter;Zhiyong Lu;James Firby;William A Baumgartner

  • MutationFinder: a high-performance system for extracting point mutation mentions from text

    J. Gregory Caporaso;William A. Baumgartner;David A. Randolph;K. Bretonnel Cohen

  • The structural and content aspects of abstracts versus bodies of full text journal articles are different

    K Bretonnel Cohen;K Bretonnel Cohen;Helen L Johnson;Karin Verspoor;Christophe Roeder

  • The compositional structure of Gene Ontology terms

    P V Ogren;K B Cohen;G K Acquaah-Mensah;J Eberlein

  • Extracting Molecular Binding Relationships from Biomedical Text

    Thomas C. Rindflesch;Jayant V. Rajan;Lawrence Hunter

  • Large-scale biomedical concept recognition: an evaluation of current automatic annotators and their parameters

    Christopher S. Funk;William A. Baumgartner;Benjamin Garcia;Christophe Roeder

  • Natural Language Processing and Systems Biology

    K. Bretonnel Cohen;Lawrence Hunter

  • Mining molecular binding terminology from biomedical text.

    Thomas C. Rindflesch;Lawrence Hunter;Alan R. Aronson

  • A corpus of full-text journal articles is a robust evaluation tool for revealing differences in performance of biomedical natural language processing tools

    Karin Verspoor;Kevin Bretonnel Cohen;Arrick Lanfranchi;Colin Warner

  • GEST: a gene expression search tool based on a novel Bayesian similarity metric.

    Lawrence Hunter;Ronald C. Taylor;Sonia M. Leach;Richard Simon

  • GeneRIF QUALITY ASSURANCE AS SUMMARY REVISION

    Zhiyong Lu;K. Bretonnel Cohen;Lawrence Hunter

  • Biocomputing '97 - Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium

    Russ B. Altman;A. Keith Dunker;Lawrence Hunter;Tiffany A. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Bretonnel Cohen
K. Bretonnel Cohen University of Colorado Denver
Karin Verspoor
Karin Verspoor RMIT University
Russ B. Altman
Russ B. Altman Stanford University
Teri E. Klein
Teri E. Klein Stanford University
Martha Palmer
Martha Palmer University of Colorado Boulder
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Melissa A. Haendel
Melissa A. Haendel University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Zhiyong Lu
Zhiyong Lu National Institutes of Health
A. Keith Dunker
A. Keith Dunker Indiana University
David J. States
David J. States University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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