Dr Jake Lever

  • Lecturer in Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval (School of Computing Science)
  • Affiliate (School of Cancer Sciences)

email: Jake.Lever@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Room 331, School of Computing Science, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 18 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G128RZ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939

Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Information, Data and Analysis section in the School of Computing Science. My research focuses on extracting biomedical knowledge from published research literature using different natural language processing and machine learning methods. This helps researchers to find important research knowledge and paves the way for representing biological knowledge computationally that artificial intelligence can reason on. I’ve focused in areas of precision medicine which tries to tailor treatment to an individual patient’s genetics and frequently relies on the latest research findings.

Before I moved to Glasgow, I spent two years at Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Helix Group. I received my Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada where I undertook research at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer. I completed my B.Eng. degree at the University of Edinburgh in Software Engineering.

More about my work and information about working with me can be found on my personal website.

Research interests

  • Natural language processing, especially in biomedicine
  • Information extraction
  • Knowledge bases & knowledge inference
  • Applications of machine learning, particularly biomedical
  • Bioinformatics & computational biology

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Publications

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Number of items: 25.

2023

Sosa, D., Hintzen, R., Xiong, B., de Giorgio, A., Fauqueur, J., Davies, M., Lever, J. and Altman, R. B. (2023) Associating biological context with protein-protein interactions through text mining at PubMed scale. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 145, 104474. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104474) (PMID:37572825)

Krysiak, K. et al. (2023) CIViCdb 2022: evolution of an open-access cancer variant interpretation knowledgebase. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(D1), D1230-D1241. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac979) (PMID:36373660)

2022

Krysiak, K. et al. (2022) A community approach to the cancer-variant-interpretation bottleneck. Nature Cancer, 3(5), pp. 522-525. (doi: 10.1038/s43018-022-00379-w) (PMID:35624339)

2021

Lever, J. and Altman, R. B. (2021) Analyzing the vast coronavirus literature with CoronaCentral. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(23), 2100766118. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2100766118) (PMID:34016708)

Wong, M., Previde, P., Cole, J., Thomas, B., Laxmeshwar, N., Mallory, E., Lever, J. , Petkovic, D., Altman, R. B. and Kulkarni, A. (2021) Search and visualization of gene-drug-disease interactions for pharmacogenomics and precision medicine research using GeneDive. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 117, 103732. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103732) (PMID:33737208)

Sosa, D. N., Bimbin, C., Kaushal, A., Lavertu, A., Lever, J. , Rensi, S. and Altman, R. (2021) Repurposing biomedical informaticians for COVID-19. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 115, 103673. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103673) (PMID:33486067) (PMCID:PMC7825863)

2020

Lever, J. , Altman, R. and Kim, J.-D. (2020) Extending TextAE for annotation of non-contiguous entities. Genomics and Informatics, 18(2), e15. (doi: 10.5808/gi.2020.18.2.e15) (PMID:32634869) (PMCID:PMC7362949)

Lever, J. , Barbarino, J. M., Gong, L., Huddart, R., Sangkuhl, K., Whaley, R., Whirl-Carrillo, M., Woon, M., Klein, T. E. and Altman, R. B. (2020) PGxMine: Text Mining for Curation of PharmGKB. In: 25th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Puako, HI, USA, 03-07 Jan 2020, pp. 611-622.

2019

Lever, J. , Jones, M. R., Danos, A. M., Krysiak, K., Bonakdar, M., Grewal, J. K., Culibrk, L., Griffith, O. L., Griffith, M. and Jones, S. J.M. (2019) Text-mining clinically relevant cancer biomarkers for curation into the CIViC database. Genome Medicine, 11, 78. (doi: 10.1186/s13073-019-0686-y) (PMID:31796060) (PMCID:PMC6891984)

Chun, H.-J. E. et al. (2019) Identification and analyses of extra-cranial and cranial rhabdoid tumor molecular subgroups reveal tumors with cytotoxic T cell infiltration. Cell Reports, 29(8), 2338-2354.e7. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.10.013) (PMID:31708418) (PMCID:PMC6905433)

Barbaian, A., Thompson, I. R., Lever, J. , Gagnier, L., Karimi, M. M. and Mager, D. L. (2019) LIONS: analysis suite for detecting and quantifying transposable element initiated transcription from RNA-seq. Bioinformatics, 35(19), pp. 3839-3841. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz130) (PMID:30793157)

Shen, Y. et al. (2019) Comprehensive genomic profiling of glioblastoma tumors, BTICs, and xenografts reveals stability and adaptation to growth environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(38), pp. 19098-19108. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813495116) (PMID:31471491) (PMCID:PMC6754609)

Lever, J. , Zhao, E. Y., Grewal, J., Jones, M. R. and Jones, S. J.M. (2019) CancerMine: a literature-mined resource for drivers, oncogenes and tumor suppressors in cancer. Nature Methods, 16(6), pp. 505-507. (doi: 10.1038/s41592-019-0422-y) (PMID:31110280)

2018

Lee, J. J.Y., Gottlieb, M. M., Lever, J. , Jones, S. J.M., Blau, N., van Karnebeek, C. D.M. and Wasserman, W. W. (2018) Text-based phenotypic profiles incorporating biochemical phenotypes of inborn errors of metabolism improve phenomics-based diagnosis. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 41(3), pp. 555-562. (doi: 10.1007/s10545-017-0125-4) (PMID:29340838) (PMCID:PMC5959948)

Lever, J. , Gakkhar, S., Gottlieb, M., Rashnavadi, T., Lin, S., Siu, C., Smith, M., Jones, M. R., Krzywinski, M. and Jones, S. J.M. (2018) A collaborative filtering-based approach to biomedical knowledge discovery. Bioinformatics, 34(4), pp. 652-659. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx613) (PMID:29028901)

2017

Anekalla, K. R., Courneya, J.P., Florini, N., Lever, J. , Muchow, M. and Busby, B. (2017) PubRunner: a light-weight framework for updating text mining results. F1000Research, 6, 612. (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.11389.2) (PMID:29152221) (PMCID:PMC5664974)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2017) Principal component analysis. Nature Methods, 14(7), pp. 641-642. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4346)

2016

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Regularization. Nature Methods, 13(10), pp. 803-804. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4014)

Grinshtein, N. et al. (2016) Small molecule epigenetic screen identifies novel EZH2 and HDAC inhibitors that target glioblastoma brain tumor-initiating cells. Oncotarget, 7(37), pp. 59360-59376. (doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.10661) (PMID:27449082) (PMCID:PMC5312317)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Model selection and overfitting. Nature Methods, 13(9), pp. 703-704. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3968)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Classification evaluation. Nature Methods, 13(8), pp. 603-604. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3945)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Logistic regression. Nature Methods, 13(7), pp. 541-542. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3904)

Lever, J. , Jones, M. and Jones, S. J.M. (2016) CancerMine: Knowledge Base Construction for Personalised Cancer Treatment. In: 2016 Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative - Food, Nutrition, Health and Environment for the 9 Billion (ICBO-BioCreative 2016), Corvallis, OR, USA, 01-04 Aug 2016,

2015

Davis, B., Shen, Y., Poon, C. C., Luchman, H. A., Stechishin, O. D., Pontifex, C. S., Wu, W., Kelly, J. J., Blough, M. D. and Terry Fox Research Institute Glioblastoma Consortium, (2015) Comparative genomic and genetic analysis of glioblastoma-derived brain tumor-initiating cells and their parent tumors. Neuro-Oncology, 18(3), pp. 350-360. (doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nov143) (PMID:26245525) (PMCID:PMC4767234)

2012

Lever, J. and Komura, T. (2012) Real-time controllable fire using textured forces. Visual Computer, 28(6-8), pp. 691-700. (doi: 10.1007/s00371-012-0684-1)

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Number of items: 25.

Articles

Sosa, D., Hintzen, R., Xiong, B., de Giorgio, A., Fauqueur, J., Davies, M., Lever, J. and Altman, R. B. (2023) Associating biological context with protein-protein interactions through text mining at PubMed scale. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 145, 104474. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104474) (PMID:37572825)

Krysiak, K. et al. (2023) CIViCdb 2022: evolution of an open-access cancer variant interpretation knowledgebase. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(D1), D1230-D1241. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac979) (PMID:36373660)

Krysiak, K. et al. (2022) A community approach to the cancer-variant-interpretation bottleneck. Nature Cancer, 3(5), pp. 522-525. (doi: 10.1038/s43018-022-00379-w) (PMID:35624339)

Lever, J. and Altman, R. B. (2021) Analyzing the vast coronavirus literature with CoronaCentral. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(23), 2100766118. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2100766118) (PMID:34016708)

Wong, M., Previde, P., Cole, J., Thomas, B., Laxmeshwar, N., Mallory, E., Lever, J. , Petkovic, D., Altman, R. B. and Kulkarni, A. (2021) Search and visualization of gene-drug-disease interactions for pharmacogenomics and precision medicine research using GeneDive. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 117, 103732. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103732) (PMID:33737208)

Sosa, D. N., Bimbin, C., Kaushal, A., Lavertu, A., Lever, J. , Rensi, S. and Altman, R. (2021) Repurposing biomedical informaticians for COVID-19. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 115, 103673. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103673) (PMID:33486067) (PMCID:PMC7825863)

Lever, J. , Altman, R. and Kim, J.-D. (2020) Extending TextAE for annotation of non-contiguous entities. Genomics and Informatics, 18(2), e15. (doi: 10.5808/gi.2020.18.2.e15) (PMID:32634869) (PMCID:PMC7362949)

Lever, J. , Jones, M. R., Danos, A. M., Krysiak, K., Bonakdar, M., Grewal, J. K., Culibrk, L., Griffith, O. L., Griffith, M. and Jones, S. J.M. (2019) Text-mining clinically relevant cancer biomarkers for curation into the CIViC database. Genome Medicine, 11, 78. (doi: 10.1186/s13073-019-0686-y) (PMID:31796060) (PMCID:PMC6891984)

Chun, H.-J. E. et al. (2019) Identification and analyses of extra-cranial and cranial rhabdoid tumor molecular subgroups reveal tumors with cytotoxic T cell infiltration. Cell Reports, 29(8), 2338-2354.e7. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.10.013) (PMID:31708418) (PMCID:PMC6905433)

Barbaian, A., Thompson, I. R., Lever, J. , Gagnier, L., Karimi, M. M. and Mager, D. L. (2019) LIONS: analysis suite for detecting and quantifying transposable element initiated transcription from RNA-seq. Bioinformatics, 35(19), pp. 3839-3841. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz130) (PMID:30793157)

Shen, Y. et al. (2019) Comprehensive genomic profiling of glioblastoma tumors, BTICs, and xenografts reveals stability and adaptation to growth environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(38), pp. 19098-19108. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813495116) (PMID:31471491) (PMCID:PMC6754609)

Lever, J. , Zhao, E. Y., Grewal, J., Jones, M. R. and Jones, S. J.M. (2019) CancerMine: a literature-mined resource for drivers, oncogenes and tumor suppressors in cancer. Nature Methods, 16(6), pp. 505-507. (doi: 10.1038/s41592-019-0422-y) (PMID:31110280)

Lee, J. J.Y., Gottlieb, M. M., Lever, J. , Jones, S. J.M., Blau, N., van Karnebeek, C. D.M. and Wasserman, W. W. (2018) Text-based phenotypic profiles incorporating biochemical phenotypes of inborn errors of metabolism improve phenomics-based diagnosis. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 41(3), pp. 555-562. (doi: 10.1007/s10545-017-0125-4) (PMID:29340838) (PMCID:PMC5959948)

Lever, J. , Gakkhar, S., Gottlieb, M., Rashnavadi, T., Lin, S., Siu, C., Smith, M., Jones, M. R., Krzywinski, M. and Jones, S. J.M. (2018) A collaborative filtering-based approach to biomedical knowledge discovery. Bioinformatics, 34(4), pp. 652-659. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx613) (PMID:29028901)

Anekalla, K. R., Courneya, J.P., Florini, N., Lever, J. , Muchow, M. and Busby, B. (2017) PubRunner: a light-weight framework for updating text mining results. F1000Research, 6, 612. (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.11389.2) (PMID:29152221) (PMCID:PMC5664974)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2017) Principal component analysis. Nature Methods, 14(7), pp. 641-642. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4346)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Regularization. Nature Methods, 13(10), pp. 803-804. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4014)

Grinshtein, N. et al. (2016) Small molecule epigenetic screen identifies novel EZH2 and HDAC inhibitors that target glioblastoma brain tumor-initiating cells. Oncotarget, 7(37), pp. 59360-59376. (doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.10661) (PMID:27449082) (PMCID:PMC5312317)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Model selection and overfitting. Nature Methods, 13(9), pp. 703-704. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3968)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Classification evaluation. Nature Methods, 13(8), pp. 603-604. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3945)

Lever, J. , Krzywinski, M. and Altman, N. (2016) Logistic regression. Nature Methods, 13(7), pp. 541-542. (doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3904)

Davis, B., Shen, Y., Poon, C. C., Luchman, H. A., Stechishin, O. D., Pontifex, C. S., Wu, W., Kelly, J. J., Blough, M. D. and Terry Fox Research Institute Glioblastoma Consortium, (2015) Comparative genomic and genetic analysis of glioblastoma-derived brain tumor-initiating cells and their parent tumors. Neuro-Oncology, 18(3), pp. 350-360. (doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nov143) (PMID:26245525) (PMCID:PMC4767234)

Lever, J. and Komura, T. (2012) Real-time controllable fire using textured forces. Visual Computer, 28(6-8), pp. 691-700. (doi: 10.1007/s00371-012-0684-1)

Conference Proceedings

Lever, J. , Barbarino, J. M., Gong, L., Huddart, R., Sangkuhl, K., Whaley, R., Whirl-Carrillo, M., Woon, M., Klein, T. E. and Altman, R. B. (2020) PGxMine: Text Mining for Curation of PharmGKB. In: 25th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Puako, HI, USA, 03-07 Jan 2020, pp. 611-622.

Lever, J. , Jones, M. and Jones, S. J.M. (2016) CancerMine: Knowledge Base Construction for Personalised Cancer Treatment. In: 2016 Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative - Food, Nutrition, Health and Environment for the 9 Billion (ICBO-BioCreative 2016), Corvallis, OR, USA, 01-04 Aug 2016,

This list was generated on Sat Apr 20 01:40:35 2024 BST.

Supervision

  • Zhang, Xi
    Generative Multi-modal BioMedical Natural Language Modelling