Biomedical Literature Search Tools

* indicates the 28 systems surveyed in Lu, Database 2011

# indicates other systems added to the list after the above publication through request or regular update (last update: Feburary 2012)

Tool Selection Filters

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Seeking relevant words or concepts for focused reading

Seeking retrieval results ranked by relevance

Semantic search with biological concepts

Looking for experts;reviewers; and collaborators

Seeking assistance in gene list analysis and/or curation

Identifying similar publications

Visualization of search results in literature networks

Searching with natural language questions

Seeking instant results while typing queries

Seeking automatic updates on saved searches

Searching in languages other than English

Seeking assistance in terminology development

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Biomedical Literature Search Tools

* PubMed (Sayers et al., 2011)
: A service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

# BioMedLib (2011)
: Does both keyword-based and meaning-based search

# BibliMed (2011)
: Providing contextual help like MeSH terms organized by qualifiers

# CAIPIRINI (2010)
: Uses gene sets and SVM to rank literature search results

* iPubMed (Wang et al., 2010)
: Supports fuzzy type-ahead searches

# MEDPILOT (Daumke et al., 2010)
: A service provided by the Geman National Library of Medicine (ZB MED)

# MARTINI (Soldatos et al., 2010)
: Searches literature and uses keywords to compare gene sets.

* RefMed (Yu et al., 2010)
: Enabling multi-level relevance feedback for PubMed searches

# Semantic MEDLINE Prototype (Kilicoglu et al., 2010)
: Summarizing and visualizing semantic relations extracted from literature

# LigerCat (Sarkar et al., 2009)
: Generating "MeSH Clouds" for exploring search results

* MiSearch (States et al., 2009)
: Ranks citations based on implicit user feedback

* MedlineRanker (Fontaine et al., 2009)
: Flexible ranking of biomedical literature

* Quertle^® (2009)
: Relationship-driven search and supports searches with categorical concepts

* MScanner (Poulter et al., 2008)
: A classfier for retrieving Medline citations

* Anne O'Tate (Smalheiser et al., 2008)
: Clustering by important words, topics, journals, authors, etc.

* Medline.Cognition (Goldsmith et al., 2008)
: Powered by Cognition's proprietary search technology

* hakia (2008)
: Part of the semantic search engine hakia.com

* MedEvi (Kim et al., 2008)
: Providing textual evidence of semantic relations in output

* EBIMed (Rebholz-Schuhmann et al., 2007)
: Offers associations between protein/genes, GO annotations, drugs and species.

* McSyBi (Yamamoto and Takagi, 2007)
: Biomedical knowledge navigation by literature clustering

* PICO (Schardt et al., 2007)
: Using Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO) framework for clinical questions

* eTBLAST (Errami et al., 2007)
: Finding documents similar to input text

* PubGet (2007)
: Retrieving results in PDFs

* HubMed (Eaton 2006)
: Incorporating external web services for improving search efficiency

* PubFocus (Plikus et al., 2006)
: Semantic analytics through integration of controlled bio-dictionaries and ranking algorithm

* BabelMeSH (Liu et al., 2006)
: a cross-language tool for MEDLINE/PubMed

# CISMeF (Neveol et al., 2006; Thirion et al., 2007)
: Providing access to MEDLINE/PubMed using queries in French

* MEDIE (Ohta et al., 2006)
: Extracting text fragments matching queried semantics
* CiteXplore
: EBI's tool for integrating biomedical literature and data

* Twease (Dorff et al., 2006)
: Expands search queries and automatically discovers common abbreviations

# MEDSUM (2005)
: The MEDLINE summary tool

* PubNet (Douglas et al., 2005)
: A flexible system for visualizing literature derived networks

* GoPubMed (Doms and Schroeder, 2005)
: Exploring PubMed with the Gene Ontology

* askMEDLINE (Fontelo et al., 2005)
: This tool would translate a question into an efficient search

* SLIM (Muin et al., 2005)
: Features interactive slider bars in the search form

* ClusterMed^TM (2004)
: A demo service by Vivisimo^®

* XplorMed (Perez-Iratxeta et al., 2003; Perez-Iratxeta et al., 2001)
: Summarizing the subjects contained in the search results

* PubCrawler (Hokamp and Wolfe, 1999; Hokamp and Wolfe, 2004)
: Alerting users with new articles based on saved searches

Systems Last Update
(assessed on 08/23/10) Service Provider Profile Source Code Available System Output Format PubMed ID Links Full Text Links Related Article Links Export Search Results

RefMed 2010 Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
iPubMed Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Quertle 2010 Private ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
MiSearch Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
MedlineRanker Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
MScanner 2007 Academic ✓ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Anne O'Tate Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
Medline.Cognition 8/6/2010 Private ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
hakia 2010 Private ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
MedEvi 2010 Government ✗ Table ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
EBIMed 2010 Government ✗ Table ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
McSyBi Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
PICO Current Government ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
eTBLAST 2010 Academic ✓ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
PubGet Current Private ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
HubMed Current Private ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
PubFocus Current Private ✗ List ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
BabelMeSH 2010 Government ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
MEDIE 12/10/2009 Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CiteXplore Current Government ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
Twease Current Academic ✓ List ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
PubNet Current Academic ✗ Graph ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
GoPubMed Current Private ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
askMEDLINE 2010 Government ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
SLIM Current Government ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
ClusterMed^TM Current Private ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
XplorMed Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
PubCrawler Current Academic ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
MEDPILOT 2010 Government ✗ List ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
LigerCat Current Academic ✗ Word cloud n/a n/a n/a n/a
BioMedLib 2010 Private ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
CISMeF 2006 Academic ✗ List n/a n/a n/a n/a
Semantic MEDLINE Current Government ✗ Graph ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
MARTINI Current Government ✗ Table ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
CAIPIRINI Current Academic ✗ Table ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
BibliMed Current Private ✗ List ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
MEDSUM Current Academic ✗ Summary Stats n/a n/a n/a n/a

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