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Literature Mapping with PubAtlas — extending PubMed with a ‘BLASTing interface’

PubAtlas (www.pubatlas.org) is a web service and standalone program providing literature maps for the biomedical research literature. It accepts user-defined sets of terms (PubMed queries) as input, and permits ‘BLASTing’ of one set against another: for all terms x and y in these sets, deriving the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Parker, D.S., Chu, W.W., Sabb, F.W., Toga, A.W., Bilder, R.M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Medical Informatics Association 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21347177
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Sumario:PubAtlas (www.pubatlas.org) is a web service and standalone program providing literature maps for the biomedical research literature. It accepts user-defined sets of terms (PubMed queries) as input, and permits ‘BLASTing’ of one set against another: for all terms x and y in these sets, deriving the results of the pairwise intersections x AND y. This all vs. all capability extends PubMed with a literature analysis interface. Correspondingly, the basic form of literature map that PubAtlas provides for exploring associations among sets of terms is an interactive tabular display, in heatmap/microarray format. PubAtlas supports development of specialized lexica -- hierarchies of controlled terminology that can represent sets of related concepts or a ‘user-defined query language’. PubAtlas also provides historical perspectives on the literature, with temporal query features that highlight historical patterns. Generally, it is a framework for extending the PubMed interface, and an extensible platform for producing interactive literature maps.