In this directory, you can find data used for the Allie service (http://allie.dbcls.jp/).
Please read and accept the terms and conditions of use (http://allie.dbcls.jp/terms.html)
before downloading the data in this directory.

Allie is a search service for abbreviations and long forms utilized in Lifesciences.
It provides a solution to the issue that many abbreviations are used in the literature,
and polysemous or synonymous abbreviations appear frequently, making it difficult to read
and understand scientific papers that are not relevant to the reader's expertise.
Allie searches for abbreviations and their corresponding long forms from the entire MEDLINE®
a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (titles and abstracts).
MEDLINE stores over 18 million bibliographic information in life science and is suitable for
extracting domain specific abbreviations and their long forms appearing in actual literature.

Format is a tab-delimited plain text.
From left to right, each column contains the following value.

1) Sequential ID
2) PubMed ID
3) Publication Year
4) Long Form ID
5) Short Form ID
6) Long Form
7) Short Form

Please contact to support@dbcls.rois.ac.jp if you have questions or comments.

Database Center for Life Science.

Document written: 2009.06.18 by Y. Yamamoto