This workshop introduces tools and approaches used to discover biologically relevant data in the research literature. Participants will be introduced to the basics of programmatic analysis of scientific literature and explore the principles of dictionary-based text-mining, explained using relevant case studies. The workshop has a strong focus on practical exercises and group project work to give participants hands-on experience, tackling biologically relevant problems based on what they have learnt in this workshop.

Do you want to identify publicly available datasets cited in research literature to use them in your future analyses? Do you want to develop basic skills to programmatically access and analyse scientific literature? Do you want to learn about the basics of text analytics to make the most of literature review?

Published research contains a wealth of new data and evidence. Automating literature review and text analysis can help extract valuable knowledge from millions of research publications. Modern tools for literature analysis can help you identify potential drug targets, predict host-pathogen interactions, or infer growth regulators for crops, based on published findings.