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Linguamatics - the world's leading text mining platform

Repositive - connecting the world of genomic data

From the volunteers and organisers of ContentMine and DNAdigest comes a new hackday!

ContentMine is an open-source project, funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, that extracts facts from scientific literature in machine readable form.

DNAdigest is a charity that promotes efficient sharing of genomics data to advance scientific research.

We will use the tools of ContentMine to automatically extract references to genomic datasets from new journal publications. Then we can put them into a big machine-readable database that can be searched by interested humans and machines alike. We would love to have your expertise and help with this experiment!

But we also want to explore with you any other areas where automatic fact extraction could be useful.

Perhaps you work in a field where you have to manually transcribe data from graphs? Or perhaps you would like to scan open-access journals that are only available via the web for a particular word or phrase? ContentMine has tools to do all these things and more.

If you are interested in machine-mining journals, whether that is for genomic dataset DOIs, your own research or just out of general interest, please come along and join us! In-depth programming knowledge is not essential - ContentMine is designed to make mining easy and we will have ContentMine mentors there on the day to help you get familiar with the system.

Tickets include lunch and catering during the day.

Students attend for free.

How to get there:

If you travel by car please check the directions here

If you travel by public transport, you can make use of the Genome Campus staff bus which departs from several locations in Cambridge: please check here

If you arrive by train to Cambridge the closest bus stop will be this one:

Hills Road (Station Road Corner)

Pick-up:
08:05
08:20
08:35

Drop-off:
17:50 or 18:05 if required (17:30 departs GC)
18:40 (18:15 departs GC)
19:25 (19:00 departs GC)
20:55 (20:30 departs GC)

Read more and join the discussion on our hackpad:

https://dnadigest.hackpad.com/Hackday-with-TheContentMine-jNyPBSmiukX

If you have any questions or concerns, drop us an e-mail: info@dnadigest.org