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<a href="http://www.biocreative.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline">BioCreative VII Challenge and Workshop</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);font-weight:700">Call for Participation</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">We invite you to attend the BioCreative VII workshop, to be held online
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700">November 8-10, 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700">Program highlights</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Keynote:
</span><a href="https://allofus.nih.gov/about/who-we-are/nih-all-us-research-program-staff/joshua-denny" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">Dr. Joshua Denny</span></a><span>, Chief Executive Officer of the All
 of Us Research Program at NIH</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Presentations from participants in the BioCreative VII Challenge tracks:</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-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">NLM-Chem Track: Full-text
 Chemical Identification and Indexing in PubMed articles</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-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">Automatic extraction
 of medication names in tweets</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-1/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">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-5/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">LitCovid track Multi-label
 topic classification for COVID-19 literature annotation</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-4/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline">COVID-19 text mining
 tool interactive demo</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Panel: Mining adverse drug reactions</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Poster session, with selected posters presented as flash talks.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">The workshop will be held over Zoom from 2:30 pm to 6:15 pm UTC each day (9:30 am - 1:15 pm EST;
</span><a href="https://dateful.com/eventlink/2055614310" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline">change time zone</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">).
 Registration is free and will remain open until November 5, or until capacity is reached.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">We
 invite the larger community to submit posters on topics related to the 
BioCreative VII Challenge tasks. Accepted
 posters will be presented as short, pre-recorded videos in a YouTube 
channel, with selected posters also presented as flash talks at the 
workshop. The
</span><a href="https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/events/biocreative-vii/biocreative-vii-workshop/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline">BioCreative VII
 Workshop Information</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400"> page contains instructions for submitting a poster abstract. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400">We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!</span></p></b></div></div>