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. 2007 Oct 25:7:32.
doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-32.

Deafness mutation mining using regular expression based pattern matching

Christopher M Frenz  1
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Deafness mutation mining using regular expression based pattern matching

Christopher M Frenz. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. .

Abstract

Background: While keyword based queries of databases such as Pubmed are frequently of great utility, the ability to use regular expressions in place of a keyword can often improve the results output by such databases. Regular expressions can allow for the identification of element types that cannot be readily specified by a single keyword and can allow for different words with similar character sequences to be distinguished.

Results: A Perl based utility was developed to allow the use of regular expressions in Pubmed searches, thereby improving the accuracy of the searches.

Conclusion: This utility was then utilized to create a comprehensive listing of all DFN deafness mutations discussed in Pubmed records containing the keywords "human ear".

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Figure 1
A screen shot of the PREP program output for a search for DFN deafness.
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