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As manual collation is an infeasible option, automated data processing tools are needed to make this information easily accessible.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We present @MInter, an automated information extraction system based on Support Vector Machines to analyze paper abstracts and infer microbial interactions. @MInter was trained and tested on a manually curated gold standard dataset of 735 species interactions and 3917 annotated abstracts, constructed as part of this study. Cross-validation analysis showed that @MInter was able to detect abstracts pertaining to one or more microbial interactions with high specificity (specificity\u2009=\u200995%, AUC\u2009=\u20090.97). Despite challenges in identifying specific microbial interactions in an abstract (interaction level recall\u2009=\u200995%, precision\u2009=\u200925%), @MInter was shown to reduce annotator workload 13-fold compared to alternate approaches. Applying @MInter to 175 bacterial species abundant on human skin, we identified a network of 357 literature-reported microbial interactions, demonstrating its utility for the study of microbial communities.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability and implementation: @MInter is freely available at https:\/\/github.com\/CSB5\/atminter.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0nagarajann@gis.a-star.edu.sg<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btw357","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,17]],"date-time":"2016-06-17T01:28:17Z","timestamp":1466126897000},"page":"2981-2987","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["@MInter: automated text-mining of microbial interactions"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Kun Ming Kenneth","family":"Lim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore"},{"name":"2 Computational Biology Program, Faculty of Science"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chenhao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore"},{"name":"3 Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kern Rei","family":"Chng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Niranjan","family":"Nagarajan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 138672, Singapore"},{"name":"3 Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020113481116300_btw357-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3322","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv364","article-title":"Investigating microbial co-occurrence patterns based on metagenomic compositional data","volume":"31","author":"Ban","year":"2015","journal-title":"Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)"},{"key":"2023020113481116300_btw357-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"425","DOI":"10.1128\/IAI.74.1.425-434.2006","article-title":"GroEL of Lactobacillus johnsonii La1 (NCC 533) is cell surface associated: Potential role in interactions with the host and the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori","volume":"74","author":"Bergonzelli","year":"2006","journal-title":"Infect. 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