Automatic classification of experimental models in biomedical literature to support searching for alternative methods to animal experiments

Table 1 List of labels in the GoldHamster corpus. The annotators could assign one or more label to an abstract, or even no label at all. *excluding cephalopods **including cephalopodes

Label	Description	Examples
human	humans/material	“patients received a bolus injection of”
invertebrate	invertebrates/material*	“drosophila (se) were exposed to”
in vivo	living vertebrates**	“blood pressure telemetry in rat”
organs	vertebrate organs/tissues	“mouse isolated perfused kidney”
primary cells	vertebrate primary/stem cells	“Murine neural stem cells were isolated”
immortal cell lines	vertebrate immortal cell lines	“Hela, CHO, MDCK”
in silico	computer simulations	“digital simulation of food digestion”
others	any other kind of experiments	“retrospective studies, meta-analysis”

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