bioc 1.0.dev22

BioC data structures and encoder/decoder for Python

BioC XML format can be used to share text documents and annotations.

bioc exposes an API familiar to users of the standard library marshal and pickle modules.

Development of bioc happens on GitHub: https://github.com/yfpeng/pengyifan-pybioc

Getting started

Installing bioc

$ pip install --pre bioc

Encoding the BioC collection object `collection’:

import bioc
# Serialize ``collection`` to a BioC formatted ``str``.
bioc.dumps(collection)

# Serialize ``collection`` as a BioC formatted stream to ``fp``.
with open(filename, 'w') as fp
    bioc.dump(collection, fp)

Compact encoding:

import bioc
bioc.dumps(collection, pretty_print=False)

Decoding the BioC XML file:

import json
# Deserialize ``s`` to a BioC collection object.
collection = json.loads(s)
# Deserialize ``fp`` to a BioC collection object.
with open(filename, 'r') as fp:
    bioc.load(fp)

Requirements

lxml

Developers

• Yifan Peng ([e-mail])

Acknowledgment

• Hernani Marques

Webpage

The official BioC webpage is available with all up-to-date instructions, code, and corpora in the BioC format, and other research on, based on and related to BioC.

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Dogan/BioC/
• http://bioc.sourceforge.net/

Reference

• Comeau,D.C., Doğan,R.I., Ciccarese,P., Cohen,K.B., Krallinger,M., Leitner,F., Lu,Z., Peng,Y., Rinaldi,F., Torii,M., Valencia,V., Verspoor,K., Wiegers,T.C., Wu,C.H., Wilbur,W.J. (2013) BioC: A minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
• Peng,Y., Tudor,C., Torii,M., Wu,C.H., Vijay-Shanker,K. (2014) iSimp in BioC standard format: Enhancing the interoperability of a sentence simplification system. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.
• Marques,M., Rinaldi,F. (2012) PyBioC: a python implementation of the BioC core. In Proceedings of BioCreative IV workshop.