Vapur: A Search Engine to Find Related Protein - Compound Pairs in COVID-19 Literature

Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 4:01 a.m.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.05.284224v1?rss=1 Authors: Koksal, A., Donmez, H., Ozcelik, R., Ozkirimli, E., Ozgur, A. Abstract: Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) created dire consequences globally and triggered an enormous scientific effort from different domains. Resulting publications formed a gigantic domain-specific collection of text in which finding studies on a biomolecule of interest is quite challenging for general purpose search engines due to terminology-rich characteristics of the publications. Here, we present Vapur, an online COVID-19 search engine specifically designed for finding related protein - chemical pairs. Vapur is empowered with a biochemically related entities-oriented inverted index in order to group studies relevant to a biomolecule with respect to its related entities. The inverted index of Vapur is automatically created with a BioNLP pipeline and integrated with an online user interface. The online interface is designed for the smooth traversal of the current literature and is publicly available at https://tabilab.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/vapur/. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info