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BIOC

BioC XML format can be used to exchange prepared biomedical corpora and
any accompanying annotations between different research groups and
software platforms.

GOALS are to facilitate: 
  - data exchange 
  - data and tool reuse

BIOC distribution includes a JAVA and C++ Package available from 
http://bioc.sourceforge.net

For more about these see: 
ReadMe_BioC_C++.txt
ReadMe_BioC_Java.txt

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|*|  PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE                                                        
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|*| This work is a "United States Government Work" under the terms of the
|*| United States Copyright Act. It was written as part of the authors'
|*| official duties as a United States Government employee and thus cannot
|*| be copyrighted within the United States. The data is freely available
|*| to the public for use. The National Library of Medicine and the U.S.
|*| Government have not placed any restriction on its use or reproduction
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|*| Although all reasonable efforts have been taken to ensure the accuracy
|*| and reliability of the data and its source code, the NLM and the
|*| U.S. Government do not and cannot warrant the performance or results
|*| that may be obtained by using it. The NLM and the U.S. Government
|*| disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of
|*| performance, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.
|*| 
|*| Please cite the authors in any work or product based on this material:
|*| 
|*| BioC: A Minimalist Approach to Interoperability for Biomedical Text
|*| Processing
|*| Donald C. Comeau, Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, Paolo Ciccarese, Kevin
|*| Bretonnel Cohen, Martin Krallinger, Florian Leitner, Zhiyong Lu, Yifan
|*| Peng, Fabio Rinaldi, Manabu Torii, Alfonso Valencia, Karin Verspoor,
|*| Thomas C. Wiegers, Cathy H. Wu, and W. John Wilbur, submitted,
|*| DATABASE, 2013.
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DEVELOPERS
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Don Comeau
Rezarta Islamaj Dogan
Haibin Liu
Yifan Peng
Thomas C. Wiegers
John Wilbur


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CONTACT
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Don Comeau:             comeau@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rezarta Islamaj Dogan   Rezarta.Islamaj@nih.gov
John Wilbur:            wilbur@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov


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WEBPAGE
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A BioC webpage is available with all up-to-date instructions, code, and
corpora in the BioC format, and other research on, based on and related to
BioC.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Dogan/BioC/
http://bioc.sourceforge.net/

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