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. 2009 Feb 5;10(Suppl 2):S6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S2-S6

Table 2.

Overview of the Pharmspresso database.

# articles 1,025
# journals 343
# gene terms recognized* 102,334
# drug terms recognized 3,756
# disease terms recognized** 36,843

* Includes names, symbols, aliases

** Includes redundancies in MeSH thesaurus

We used the MeSH thesaurus disease terms, including many synonyms and phrase permutations that create redundancy in disease matches. However, these are required to capture the different ways in which they appear in natural language.