MOTIVATION Genomic-based methods have significant potential for fast and accurate identification of organisms or even genes of interest in complex environmental samples (air, water, soil, food, etc.), especially when isolation of the target organism cannot be performed by a variety of reasons. Despite this potential, the presence of the unknown, variable and usually large quantities of backgrou...

Aberrant activation of the STAT3 transcription factor has been reported in a large group of tumors and a strong biological basis now defines this protein as an oncogenic driver. Consequently, STAT3 is considered to be a promising target in the field of cancer therapy. For its inhibition to result in a successful therapeutic approach, the definition of a target tumor population identified by spe...

In this year’s QA Track, we participant in the main task and do not take part in the ciQA task. The main task is essentially the same as the single task from 2004, in that the test set consists of a set of question series where each series asks for information regarding a particular target. In order to better answer the questions in the series, we try to improve our anaphora resolution within q...