NaCTeM

Information Retrieval

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Anne O'Tate
a simple tool for submitting queries to PubMed and summarising the results obtained.
askMEDLINE
a natural language (English only) query tool for MEDLINE incorporating a spell checker.
Author-ity
a tool for authorship orientated querying of PubMed.
BioIE
a MEDLINE article search and key-sentence extraction tool.
Carrot2
A research framework for experimenting with the querying of online data sources and clustering search results to aid in their visualization.
CrossRef
an infrastructure for linking citations across publisher databases.
eTBlast
a MEDLINE based search tool which accepts entire paragraphs as input and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it.
HONselect
a searchable database of accredited medical information resources on the web.
PICO
a MEDLINE/PubMed based clinical data search tool.
PubMatrix
"PubMatrix is a simple way to rapidly and systematically compare any list of terms against any other list of terms in PubMed. It reports back the frequency of co-occurrence between all pairwise comparisons between the two lists as a matrix table."
SUM Search
a clinical data search tool. Similar to PubMed clinical queries
Vivisimo
a PubMed search tool that clusters articles by their determined topic similarity.
Whatizit
Developed by the Rebholz Group, EBI, WHATIZIT is a tool for linking biomedical terms in text documents to corresponding databases at the EBI and NCBI.