National Library of Medicine adopts auto-complete feature

  “*NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Nov-Dec 2011, Search Auto-Complete Fea­ture Added to NLM Main Web Site, Med­line­Plus and Med­line­Plus en Español

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd11/nd11_mplus_auto_complete.html ”

From NLM New files for the week of Nov 7, 2011

eTBLAST — search engine for biomedical literature

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.”

VADLO — a search engine for the Life Sciences

VADLO search engine, devel­oped by 2 biologists, caters to all branches of bio­med­i­cine and life sci­ences. Searchers may delve within five cat­e­gories: Pro­to­cols, Online Tools, Sem­i­nars, Data­bases and Software.

Pro­to­cols cat­e­gory will let you search for meth­ods, tech­niques, assays, pro­ce­dures, reagent recipes, plas­mid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater cal­cu­la­tors, servers, pre­dic­tion tools, sequence align­ment and manip­u­la­tion tools, primer design etc. Sem­i­nars are essen­tially pow­er­point files for pre­sen­ta­tions, lec­tures and talks. Data­bases will take you to, well, data­bases, resources, com­pi­la­tions, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and pro­teins. Soft­ware cat­e­gory is for bioin­for­mat­ics experts who are look­ing for codes, scripts, algo­rithms, exe­cuta­bles, down­load­able pro­grams and collaborations”

Direct to VADLO

Taken from the VADLO site, and repro­duced in the lat­est ResourceShelf Newslet­ter, No. 397.