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<a href="http://www.biocreative.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;line-height:normal">BioCreative VII Challenge and Workshop</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);font-weight:400">Previous
 iterations of BioCreative have provided invaluable resources for 
advancing state-of-the-art text mining methods, including reference 
datasets and system evaluations in both
 shared and interactive modes. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);font-weight:400">The
 COVID-19 pandemic triggered the development of text mining tools to 
support ongoing research efforts and address the wave of COVID-19 
publications. Accordingly, BioCreative VII
 presents an interactive track to provide developers of COVID-19 text 
mining tools with feedback from potential users in the research 
community and announces a new track addressing multi-label topic 
classification to support the curation of COVID-19 literature.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">Track 4 - COVID-19 text mining tool interactive demo</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">Track 5 - LitCovid track Multi-label topic classification for COVID-19 literature annotation</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);font-weight:400">The
 sudden spread of COVID-19 has challenged the biomedical community to 
identify potential drug treatments quickly. Thus, BioCreative VII 
previously presented three tracks focusing
 on the detection of chemicals, drugs, and related substances:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-vii/track-1/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">Track 1 - DrugProt:
 Text mining drug/chemical-protein interactions</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-vii/track-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">Track 2 - NLM-Chem
 Track: Full-text Chemical Identification and Indexing in PubMed articles</span></a></p>
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 extraction of medication names in tweets</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">The
 workshop will take place sometime during the first two weeks for 
November 2021. See individual tracks for their timelines and
</span><a href="http://www.biocreative.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline">http://www.biocreative.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);font-weight:400"> for
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