This document discusses methods for mining clinical trial data from ClinicalTrials.gov to infer disease-target associations. It presents several proposed confidence metrics for evaluating these associations and provides examples. Over 1.2 million associations were found involving 164,000 unique disease-gene pairs. Named entity recognition tools were used to extract drugs, diseases, and other information from trial descriptions. Top drugs, diseases, and targets were identified based on number of mentions.
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