---
language: 
- en
bigbio_language: 
- English
license: cc-by-3.0
multilinguality: monolingual
bigbio_license_shortname: CC_BY_3p0
pretty_name: OSIRIS
homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/laurafurlongweb/databases-and-tools/corpora/
bigbio_pubmed: True
bigbio_public: True
bigbio_tasks: 
- NAMED_ENTITY_RECOGNITION
- NAMED_ENTITY_DISAMBIGUATION
---


# Dataset Card for OSIRIS

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://sites.google.com/site/laurafurlongweb/databases-and-tools/corpora/
- **Pubmed:** True
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** NER,NED


The OSIRIS corpus is a set of MEDLINE abstracts manually annotated
with human variation mentions. The corpus is distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited (Furlong et al, BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:84).



## Citation Information

```
@ARTICLE{Furlong2008,
  author = {Laura I Furlong and Holger Dach and Martin Hofmann-Apitius and Ferran Sanz},
  title = {OSIRISv1.2: a named entity recognition system for sequence variants
  of genes in biomedical literature.},
  journal = {BMC Bioinformatics},
  year = {2008},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {84},
  doi = {10.1186/1471-2105-9-84},
  pii = {1471-2105-9-84},
  pmid = {18251998},
  timestamp = {2013.01.15},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-84}
}

```