Reviewer's Precis
This is a useful and innovative report because it shows how information on molecular interactions can be obtained from abstracts. The abstract(s) data is compared with Full-text data to show that it is indeed  informative. This is a well written piece of work and derives its data (and conclusions) from a good sample of high profile journals. Because of the importance of  extracting molecular data from online sources this work in my view is important.  M and M: One weakness may have been the analysis b bias by  biocurators but this is probably unavoidable. Otherwise paper well written and referenced. Publish without changes. RH
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Title: A comparison of information on molecular...


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This is a useful and innovative report because it shows how information on molecular interactions can be obtained from abstracts. The abstract(s) data is compared with Full-text data to show that it is indeed  informative. This is a well written piece of work and derives its data (and conclusions) from a good sample of high profile journals. Because of the importance of  extracting molecular data from online sources this work in my view is important.  M and M: One weakness may have been the analysis b bias by  biocurators but this is probably unavoidable. Otherwise paper well written and referenced. Publish without changes. RH

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