CoreKB: A Web-based Platform for Searching Reliable Facts over a Medical Knowledge Base

CoreKB is a web-based platform enabling users to search for reliable scientific facts concerning gene expression-cancer associations over a medical Knowledge Base (KB). CoreKB provides a streamlined interface for searching either using natural language queries or by exploiting structured facets providing autocomplete facilities. It is designed to simplify information access and search of scientific facts targeting healthcare stakeholders (i.e., clinicians, physicians, and researchers). CoreKB aims at presenting the user a comprehensive overview of the scientific evidence supporting a medical fact, fully connected with ontology-based entities and well-defined literature resources. In addition, CoreKB provides the user a quantitative comparison of the possible gene-cancer associations related to a specific fact, thus enabling users to assess the degree of agreement among the evidence support.