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The TREC Genomics track was a workshop held under the auspices of
NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sc ...
for the purpose of evaluating systems for information retrieval and related technologies in the
genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...
domain. The TREC Genomics track took place annually from 2003 to 2007, with some modifications to the task set every year; tasks included information retrieval,
document classification Document classification or document categorization is a problem in library science, information science and computer science. The task is to assign a document to one or more classes or categories. This may be done "manually" (or "intellectually") ...
, GeneRIF prediction, and
question answering Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural l ...
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See also

* TREC, the Text Retrieval Conference


External links


The TREC Genomics track web site
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