Published August 18, 2025 | Version v0.8.3
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scribl: A system for the semantic capture of relationships in biological literature

  • 1. Amber Biology LLC
  • 2. ROR icon Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education

Description

scribl (Semantic Capture of Relationships in Biological Literature) is a Python software pipeline and API that transforms a Zotero literature database with entries annotated with tags in the scribl language to create a graph data structure, suitable for import into a graph database platform, such as Neo4j, or Python's NetworkX.

The scribl language was designed for the curation from scientific articles, to capture the relationships between the various biological agents and the processes that they describe in a connected network.

Notes

If you use this software, please cite both the software itself, as well as the article: Webster GD, Lancaster AK. (2024) scribl: A system for the semantic capture of relationships in biological literature. Journal of Open Source Software. 9(99):6645. doi:10.21105/joss.06645

Development is on GitHub: https://github.com/amberbiology/scribl

Binary packages are available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/scribl/

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Software: https://pypi.org/project/scribl/0.8.3 (URL)
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Software: https://github.com/amberbiology/scribl/tree/v0.8.3 (URL)
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Other: http://amberbiology.com/ (URL)