SIA : Scalable Interoperable Annotation Server

Recent years showed a strong increase in biomedical sciences and an inherent increase in publication volume. Extraction of specific information from these sources requires highly sophisticated text miningand information extraction-tools. However, the integration of freely available tools into customized workflows is often cumbersome and difficult. We describe SIA, our contribution to the BeCalm-TIPS task, a scalable, extensible, and robust annotation service. The system currently covers three named entity types (i.e., Mutations, Diseases, and miRNA) and is freely available under Apache 2.0 license at https://github.com/Erechtheus/sia.