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Biomedical Search Tools

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Anne O'Tate
a simple tool for submitting queries to PubMed and summarising the results obtained.
Arrowsmith
a PubMed article search and subsequent term filtering tool.
Author-ity
a tool for authorship orientated querying of PubMed.
askMEDLINE
a natural language (English only) query tool for MEDLINE incorporating a spell checker.
BioIE
a MEDLINE article search and key-sentence extraction tool.
CrossRef
an infrastructure for linking citations across publisher databases.
eTBlast
a MEDLINE based search tool which accepts entire paragraphs as input and TRITE it's pre-computed archive of medical research topics.
Google Scholar
a Google search engine tailored to the search of academic literature.
HONselect
a searchable database of accredited medical information resources on the web.
MedLEE
a clinical data extraction, structuring and encoding for automated processes tool.
PICO
a MEDLINE/PubMed based clinical data search tool.
SCIRUS
a scientific domain web and journal search tool. Includes an optional IE browser toolbar plug-in.
SUM Search
a clinical data search tool. Similar to PubMed clinical queries
TIGERSearch
a search tool that provides an searchable interface to a database of linguistically tagged text.
Vivisimo
a PubMed search tool that clusters articles by their determined topic similarity.