LBDiscover: Literature-Based Discovery Tools for Biomedical Research

A suite of tools for literature-based discovery in biomedical research. Provides functions for retrieving scientific articles from 'PubMed' and other NCBI databases, extracting biomedical entities (diseases, drugs, genes, etc.), building co-occurrence networks, and applying various discovery models including 'ABC', 'AnC', 'LSI', and 'BITOLA'. The package also includes visualization tools for exploring discovered connections.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: httr (≥ 1.4.0), xml2 (≥ 1.3.0), igraph (≥ 1.2.0), Matrix (≥ 1.3.0), utils, stats, grDevices, graphics, tools, rentrez (≥ 1.2.0), jsonlite (≥ 1.7.0)
Suggests: openxlsx (≥ 4.2.0), SnowballC (≥ 0.7.0), visNetwork (≥ 2.1.0), spacyr (≥ 1.2.0), parallel, digest (≥ 0.6.0), irlba (≥ 2.3.0), knitr, rmarkdown, base64enc, reticulate, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), mockery, covr, htmltools, data.table, tibble
Published: 2025-06-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.LBDiscover
Author: Chao Liu ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Chao Liu <chaoliu at cedarville.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/chaoliu-cl/LBDiscover/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/chaoliu-cl/LBDiscover, https://liu-chao.site/LBDiscover/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: LBDiscover results

Documentation:

Reference manual: LBDiscover.pdf

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Package source: LBDiscover_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: LBDiscover_0.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
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