Web-based named entity recognition and data integration to accelerate molecular biology research [Elektronische Ressource] / presented by Evangelos Pafilis
INAUGURAL - DISSERTATION zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Naturwissenschaftlich-Mathematischen Gesamtfakultät der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg vorgelegt von Diplom-Evangelos Pafilis aus: Kozani, Griechenland Tag der mundlichen Prufung: ̈̈ DISSERTATION submitted to the Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics of the Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg, Germany for the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences presented by Evangelos Pafilis born in: Kozani, Greece Date of oral examination: Web-based Named Entity Recognition and Data Integration to Accelerate Molecular Biology Research Referees: Dr. Peer Bork Prof. Dr. Roland Eils Acknowledgements First and foremost I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Reinhard Schneider without whom the work presented in this thesis would not have been possible. Reinhard did not only give me the opportunity to work under his guidance; he provided with all the freedom and ample support to find my way in the cross roads of literature mining, data integration and web technologies. Through his visions and advices he guided me towards discovering new scientific niches and exploring novel solutions to bioinformatics challenges.