Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, Basel 4070, Switzerland.
Database (Oxford). 2022 Jun 3;2022. doi: 10.1093/database/baac039.
Current biological writing is afflicted by the use of ambiguous names, convoluted sentences, vague statements and narrative-fitted storylines. This represents a challenge for biological research in general and in particular for fields such as biological database curation and text mining, which have been tasked to cope with exponentially growing content. Improving the quality of biological writing by encouraging unambiguity and precision would foster expository discipline and machine reasoning. More specifically, the routine inclusion of formal languages in biological writing would improve our ability to describe, compile and model biology.
当前的生物写作受到模糊名称、复杂句子、模糊陈述和叙事拟合故事情节的影响。这对一般的生物研究，特别是生物数据库编纂和文本挖掘等领域构成了挑战，这些领域的任务是应对呈指数级增长的内容。通过鼓励清晰和精确来提高生物写作的质量将促进说明性学科和机器推理。更具体地说，在生物写作中常规地使用形式语言将提高我们描述、编译和建模生物学的能力。
