Biomedical literature search made easy (original) (raw)
Title
TPX: Biomedical literature search made easy
Authors
Thomas Joseph, Vangala G Saipradeep, Ganesh Sekar Venkat Raghavan, Rajgopal Srinivasan*, Aditya Rao, Sujatha Kotte & Naveen Sivadasan#
Affiliation
TCS Innovation Labs - Hyderabad, Tata Consultancy Services, 1, Software Units Layout, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500081, INDIA; # Current affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Ordnance Factory Estate, Yeddumailaram 502205, India
raj@atc.tcs.com; *Corresponding author
Article Type
Software
Date
Received May 29, 2012; Accepted June 08, 2012; Published June 28, 2012
Abstract
TPX is a web-based PubMed search enhancement tool that enables faster article searching using analysis and exploration features. These features include identification of relevant biomedical concepts from search results with linkouts to source databases, concept based article categorization, concept assisted search and filtering, query refinement. A distinguishing feature here is the ability to add user-defined concept names and/or concept types for named entity recognition. The tool allows contextual exploration of knowledge sources by providing concept association maps derived from the MEDLINE repository. It also has a full-text search mode that can be configured on request to access local text repositories, incorporating entity co-occurrence search at sentence/paragraph levels. Local text files can also be analyzed on-the-fly.
Availability
Keywords
PubMed search, text-mining, concept identification, biomedical literature, concept association, concept-assisted search, ontology based dictionaries.
Citation
Joseph et al. Bioinformation 8(12): 578-580 (2012)
Edited by
P Kangueane
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.