Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois, MC912, 1601 W, Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. neils@uic.edu
Arrowsmith is a unique computer-assisted strategy designed to assist investigators in detecting biologically-relevant connections between two disparate sets of articles in Medline. This paper describes how an inter-institutional consortium of neuroscientists used the UIC Arrowsmith web interface http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu in their daily work and guided the development, refinement and expansion of the system into a suite of tools intended for use by the wider scientific community.