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A database that collects all the scientific knowledge about the coronavirus

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    BBVA Foundation (Spain)

  • Principal Investigator

    Professor Óscar Corcho García

  • Research Location

    Spain

  • Lead Research Institution

    Polytechnic University of Madrid

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Health Systems Research

  • Research Subcategory

    Health information systems

  • Special Interest Tags

    Data Management and Data Sharing

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Day after day the number of scientific articles published on the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and references to new knowledge in this area increases. With the idea of ​​getting the most out of this documentation, Óscar Corcho García's project was born, focused on improving a database that already has more than 100,000 identified scientific articles. Through the use of natural language processing techniques and large-scale text mining, this database is able to establish relationships between drugs, symptoms, associated diseases and a large number of variables more applied to the coronavirus. "The initial idea arose as a result of requests from the Madrid health system that announced the end of some medications and wanted to know what others could be used," he explains. The system can now be consulted, But it needs improvements, as well as adding new publications and validating the results with experts so that it can be a very useful resource for researchers, medical personnel and managers of the health system. Members of the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS) of the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid will also participate in the development of the work.