Monthly Archives: October 2010

eTBLAST — search engine for biomedical literature

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“eTBLAST is a unique search engine for search­ing bio­med­ical lit­er­a­ture. Our ser­vice is very dif­fer­ent from PubMed. While PubMed searches for “key­words”, our search engine lets you input an entire para­graph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are sim­i­lar to it. This is some­thing like PubMed’s “Related Arti­cles” fea­ture, only bet­ter because it runs on your unique set of inter­ests. For exam­ple, input the abstract of an unpub­lished paper or a grant pro­posal into our engine, and with the touch of a but­ton you’ll be able to find every abstract in MEDLINE deal­ing with your topic. No more guess­ing whether your set of key­words has found all the right papers. No more sort­ing through hun­dreds of papers you don’t care about to find the hand­ful you were look­ing for–our search engine does it for you.”

From ETBLAST about page.

Orig­i­nally noticed in Research­Buzz, Oct. 28, 2010:

“A new tool for find­ing pla­gia­rism in research papers.”

PubMed bibliographic records are enhanced by Images from NCBI

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“The PubMed Abstract dis­play for PubMed Cen­tral® arti­cles will be enhanced to include an image strip gen­er­ated from the soon-to-be-released National Cen­ter for Biotech­nol­ogy Infor­ma­tion (NCBI) Images data­base.”  To see an exam­ple, click on the linked arti­cle below:

 

Canese K. PubMed® Dis­play Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Data­base. NLM Tech Bull. 2010 Sep-Oct;(376):e14.

Open Access Week, October 18 — 24, 2010 (4th Annual)

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“Lead­ing the event is O[pen] A[ccess] advo­cate Dr. Harold Var­mus, a Nobel Prize-winning sci­en­tist who cur­rently directs the US National Can­cer Insti­tute. He is joined by Dr. Cameron Ney­lon, a bio­physi­cist and open research advo­cate; Dr. Mona Nemer, pro­fes­sor and vice-president for research at the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa; Dr. Roger Waki­moto, Direc­tor of the US National Cen­ter for Atmos­pheric Research; and a host of other researchers from around the globe.

“Pre­sen­ters are expected to paint a clear pic­ture of how OA has con­tributed to chang­ing the research land­scape and point to oppor­tu­ni­ties that lay ahead. Dr. Var­mus has described OA as an ‘incred­i­bly impor­tant devel­op­ment in the his­tory of sci­ence’. Dr. Ney­lon noted how pop­u­lar news sto­ries now high­light a grow­ing amount of research pub­lished in OA jour­nals, which make that mate­r­ial directly avail­able to peo­ple who want to dig deeper.“
Open Access Week is organ­ised by SPARC (the Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing and Aca­d­e­mic Resources Coali­tion), with guid­ance from an inter­na­tional panel of OA leaders.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter Oct. 19, 2010

Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar)

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From NIH News: “The National Insti­tutes of Health today announces the launch of a new resource, called the Data­base of Genomic Struc­tural Vari­a­tion, or dbVar, to help sci­en­tists under­stand how dif­fer­ences in DNA con­tribute to human health and dis­ease.”.

Thanks to Tara Cal­ishain and her newslet­ter, Research­Buzz, Octo­ber 4, 2010