This article collects opinions from leading scientists about how text mining can 
provide better access to the biological literature, how the scientific community 
can help with this process, what the next steps are, and what role future 
BioCreative evaluations can play. The responses identify several broad themes, 
including the possibility of fusing literature and biological databases through 
text mining; the need for user interfaces tailored to different classes of users 
and supporting community-based annotation; the importance of scaling text mining 
technology and inserting it into larger workflows; and suggestions for 
additional challenge evaluations, new applications, and additional resources 
needed to make progress.