EnzyMiner: automatic identification of protein level mutations and their impact on target enzymes from PubMed abstracts


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Yeniterzi S., Sezerman U.

BMC BIOINFORMATICS, cilt.10, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

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Background: A better understanding of the mechanisms of an enzyme's functionality and stability, as well as knowledge and impact of mutations is crucial for researchers working with enzymes. Though, several of the enzymes' databases are currently available, scientific literature still remains at large for up-to-date source of learning the effects of a mutation on an enzyme. However, going through vast amounts of scientific documents to extract the information on desired mutation has always been a time consuming process. In this paper, therefore, we describe an unique method, termed as EnzyMiner, which automatically identifies the PubMed abstracts that contain information on the impact of a protein level mutation on the stability and/or the activity of a given enzyme.