The steps of text mining in biomedical field and the methods used in its each step were described with stress laid on the tools used in each step of text mining in order to promote text mining in biomedical field.

The long-year program for medical education is the major way to train the high level medical professionals.This paper colleeted the research papers on this topic published in Chinese journals in recent years,extracted their key words and counted the high frequent key words According to the co-occurrence of a pair of key words in one paper.these high frequent keywords were clustered into groups.The research structure and main directions of the long-year program were outlined as the study of macro-planning of long-year program,the study of teaching models and teaching system,study of teaching practice.These results could be a useful reference for the medical educational researchers and managers.

Co-citation analysis, co-word analysis and strategic coordinates are combined to make known the subject theme evolu-tion. The research history of general surgery is described by eo-citation eluster analysis, citation strategic diagram is pictured by the theory of strategy coordinates to learn more about the novelty and attention of each hot topic. The present research focused on general surgery that would be found by co-words cluster analysis, and stages of development about each topic are discussed by strategic coordinates based of cluster results. It is helpful to provide a decision-making reference for professionals and managers.

The paper analyzes the current research on ontology related to biomedicine based on literature review through investiga-tions on related literatures. Seven hot points are elaborates by co - word analysis and cluster analysis, including the conduction of gene expression, protein - related research, development of ontology - related system and software, related research on gene and chromo-some, subject heading research related ontology, methodology research on computational biology and genomics, gene expression re-search.

After the basic properties of literature-related citation network, co-authorship network and co-words network were analyzed and the advances in their application research were summarized in aspects of their construc-tion methods, size and research depth, it was pointed out that article similarity networks could be constructed using the article similarity algorithm, and their basic properties and features were analyzed.

After the necessity and feasibility to detect drug adverse effects by text-mining were analyzed, the cur-rent researches on detection drug adverse effects by text-mining, unsolved problems and future development were summarized in aspects of text-mining process, text mining/detecting methods, results assessment, and current tool software.

Articles, reviews and proceeding papers published from 2012 to 2015 in medical, chemical and physical journals with the highest IF were retrieved from 2014 JCR and analyzed using the BICOMB software to generate the co-occurrence matrix of authors and plot the map of co-authorship network in medical, chemical and physical fields using the UCINET software.The correlation between the parameters for assessing the importance of co-au-thorship network nodes ( degree centrality, betweenness centrality, closeness centrality, eigenvector centrality) and biblimetric parameters of authors ( number of published papers, frequency of cited papers) was analyzed using the SPSS, which showed that degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and eigenvector centrality were positively corre-lated with the number of published papers and the frequency of cited papers whereas betweenness centrality was negatively correlated the number of published papers and the frequency of cited papers.Betweenness centrality was more significantly correlated with the number of published papers whereas degree centrality was more significantly correlated with the frequency of cited papers.

Co-citations of highly cited papers on gene annotation covered in Web of Science were analyzed by clustering analysis using clustering software after the word matrix of resource literature and highly cited papers was formed, which showed that the application of text mining on gene annotation includes use of authorized tools, development of text mining tools and algorithms, and verification of text mining tools.

Co-citations of foreign and domestic highly cited papers on drug target discovery were analyzed by clustering analysis using BICOMB2.01 and gCLUTO.Semantic analysis of the titles and abstracts in these highly cited papers and their important source literature showed that general trend, theoretical foundation, main methods and principal resources are the major hotspots of text mining in drug target discovery.

Text mining provides a new approach for drug repositioning, and the emerging databases and their corresponding tools provide more and more convenience for drug repositioning by text mining.The methods and tools for studying drug repositioning by text mining and their successful application examples were thus described in this paper in order to provide reference for the researchers interested in this field.