Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on June 1, 2007
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm301
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BioText Search Engine: beyond abstract search
aUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, bUniversity of Cambridge, UK, cCalifornia Digital Library
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Dr. Anna Divoli. E-mail: hearst{at}ischool.berkeley.edu, divoli{at}ischool.berkeley.edu
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Summary: The BioText Search Engine is a freely available Webbased application that provides biologists with new ways to access the scientific literature. One novel feature is the ability to search and browse article figures and their captions. A grid view juxtaposes many different figures associated with the same keywords, providing new insight into the literature. An abstract/title search and list view shows at a glance many of the figures associated with each article. The interface is carefully designed according to usability principles and techniques. The search engine is a work in progress, and more functionality will be added over time.
Availability: http://biosearch.berkeley.edu
Associate Editor: Prof. Alfonso Valencia
Received on April 12, 2007; revised on May 23, 2007; accepted on May 29, 2007