PubGene AS is located in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and is the daughter company of PubGene Inc.

In 2001, PubGene founders demonstrated one of the first
applications of text mining

Text mining

Text mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. High-quality information is typically derived through the devising of patterns and trends through means such as...

 to research in biomedicine

Biomedicine

Biomedicine is a branch of medical science that applies biological and other natural-science principles to clinical practice,. Biomedicine, i.e. medical research, involves the study of physiological processes with methods from biology, chemistry and physics. Approaches range from understanding...

 (i.e., biomedical text mining

Biomedical text mining

Biomedical text mining refers to text mining applied to texts and literature of the biomedical and molecular biology domain...

). They went on to create the PubGene public search engine , exemplifying the approach they pioneered by presenting biomedical terms as graphical networks based on their co-occurrence in MEDLINE

MEDLINE

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...

 texts. Co-occurrence networks

Co-occurrence networks

Co-occurrence networks are generally used to provide a graphic visualization of potential relationships between people, organizations, concepts or other entities represented within written material...

 provide a visual overview of possible relationships between terms and facilitate medical literature retrieval

Medical literature retrieval

Medical literature retrieval or medical document retrieval is an activity that uses professional methods for medical research papers retrieval, report and other data to improve medicine research and practice.-Professional medical search engine:*Pubmed...

 for relevant sets of articles implied by the network display. Commercial applications of the technology are available.

Original development of PubGene technologies was undertaken in collaboration between the Norwegian Cancer Hospital (Radiumhospitalet

Radiumhospitalet

The Norwegian Radium Hospital is a hospital in Oslo, Norway dedicated to cancer treatment. It is the largest cancer centre in Northern Europe, with 400 beds and around 2,000 employees. It was founded in 1932, with Severin Andreas Heyerdahl as chief physician and director, and Hans L. C...

) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology , commonly known as NTNU, is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the eight universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology...

. The work is supported by the Research Council of Norway and commercialization assisted by Innovation Norway

Innovation Norway

Innovation Norway is a state-owned company started in 2004 that replaced four governmental organisations. These organisations were:* The Norwegian Tourist Board* The Norwegian Trade Council* The Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund...

.