What is fable?
FABLE stands for Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction. FABLE is a completely automated way to identify objects of biological interest in biomedical literature. FABLE currently targets genes and proteins, and it uses MEDLINE®/PubMed® abstracts and associated annotations (such as MeSH terms). FABLE uses state-of-the art information extraction tools to perform this task. What’s unique compared to PubMed®? In general, FABLE has much higher recall for (identifies more instances of) the objects of interest. For example, searching for either the official gene symbol “MYCN” or its commonly used alias “N-myc” in PubMed® will identify 653 and 1,431 articles in PubMed®, respectively, with only 31 articles in common between these searches. A search that includes synonyms with FABLE’s Article Finder will identify 2,207 articles, as it will recognize that MYCN and N-myc are equivalent. The Article Finder will also often identify articles mentioning genes that PubMed® failed to recognize a
