NIH's $15M to PharmGKB Will Improve Curation Capabilities, Facilitate Annotation of Whole Genomes

With the additional funding, "we are going to develop literature-mining tools to extract information automatically to speed up our curation," Russ Altman, principal investigator in PharmGKB, said this week. The added NIH funds will also be used to annotate the whole-genome sequence data of a family, which Altman cannot yet identify.