For the average biologist, hands-on literature mining currently means a
keyword search in PubMed. However, methods for extracting biomedical facts from
the scientific literature have improved considerably, and the associated tools
will probably soon be used in many laboratories to automatically annotate and
analyse the growing number of system-wide experimental data sets."
Extract from Nature Review Genetics : Literature mining for the biologist: from information retrieval to biological discovery by Peer Bork et al. 2006