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Figure 2

From: KID - an algorithm for fast and efficient text mining used to automatically generate a database containing kinetic information of enzymes

Figure 2

Scheme of the linkage of an exemplary sentence. Gray boxes symbolise an entity of a category. White boxes represent binding phrases written in cursive letters. The kinetic expressions (KM, Ki) are used as initial anchor for the linkage. a) The first binding word links KM to a molar concentration (1). Next to this concentration another binding word is found which links the ligand (2). Further to the right, no entity of another category or binding phrase can be found and the search is stopped. It is searched to the left side of the kinetic expression, linking it with an enzyme through another binding phrase (3). At the beginning of the sentence the search is stopped. b) Ki is linked to a concentration with the help of a binding phrase (4). Then the concentration is connected with a ligand (5) and the search is stopped at the end of the sentence. Due to the missing linkage with an enzyme the kinetic expression is linked to the only enzyme name in this sentence (6).

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