This training will explain the basics of text mining, presenting the opportunities as well as the challenges of automatically extracting information from the literature. Further, the course will demonstrate how text mining data can be incorporated into a variety of applications and research projects, covering not only human biology but also (other) animals, plants, bacteria, fungi and viruses. To ensure high quality of the textual data, the second day of the workshop will focus on manual evaluation and curation of the automatically retrieved information.