PROFESS, a system to support extracting protein function information from literature

Protein functional site information described in thousands of literatures plays an important role in protein functional analysis. In this paper, we present PROFESS, a system to assist with extraction of functional information from literature. In PROFESS, first the functional information is extracted using the protein's structure data, then the extracted information is corrected or complemented by the operator. The proposed system was applied to 11 documents related to structural analysis of protein for extracting functional site information, where the average recall value and F value were 0.927 and 0.782, respectively.