ABSTRACT
An increasingly prominent topic at conferences concerns text mining and extracting the full value of the literature for drug discovery. There have been a few false starts and misunderstandings about what text mining is and what it can do. As with many new technologies, some of the claims are perhaps excessive, yet we predict that text mining will join many others in drug discovery as a key enabling technology. Figure 6.1 shows the aspects of drug discovery where text mining is highly applicable.
