Literature-Based Discovery Tools for Biomedical Research R package LBDiscover version 0.1.0 A suite of tools for literature-based discovery in biomedical research. Provides functions for retrieving scientific articles from 'PubMed' and other NCBI databases, extracting biomedical entities (diseases, drugs, genes, etc.), building co-occurrence networks, and applying various discovery models including 'ABC', 'AnC', 'LSI', and 'BITOLA'. The package also includes visualization tools for exploring discovered connections. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Imports: httr (>= 1.4.0), xml2 (>= 1.3.0), igraph (>= 1.2.0), Matrix (>= 1.3.0), utils, stats, grDevices, graphics, tools, rentrez (>= 1.2.0), jsonlite (>= 1.7.0) Suggests: openxlsx (>= 4.2.0), SnowballC (>= 0.7.0), visNetwork (>= 2.1.0), spacyr (>= 1.2.0), parallel, digest (>= 0.6.0), irlba (>= 2.3.0), knitr, rmarkdown, base64enc, reticulate, testthat (>= 3.0.0), mockery, covr, htmltools, data.table, tibble Chao Liu <chaoliu@cedarville.edu> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Chao Liu [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9979-8272>) GPL-3 2025-06-16 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=LBDiscover doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.LBDiscover