About the Authors

Artemy Kolchinsky

Affiliations School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Anália Lourenço

Affiliations ESEI: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, University of Vigo, Edificio Politécnico, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n 32004, Ourense, Spain, CEB—Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

Heng-Yi Wu

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Lang Li

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Luis M. Rocha

rocha@indiana.edu

Affiliations School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

Coauthor Luis M. Rocha is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL LMR. Performed the experiments: AK. Analyzed the data: AK AL HW. Wrote the paper: AK LMR. Implemented the machine learning framework: AK. Assisted with extraction of NER terms: AL. Prepared the text corpora: LL HW.