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| Hinxton, 27 November 2006 |
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| CiteXplore – integrating biomedical literature
and data
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Press
Release 27 November 2006 [PDF]
Today the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory's European
Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI] launches
CiteXplore, a new freely accessible literature resource
service.
Biological researchers require two crucial sources of
information: scientific literature published in peerreviewed
journals and databases storing key biological
data such as DNA and protein sequences, functions and
structures of molecules and microarray data. Tools that
integrate these two sources of information are desperately
sought.
EMBL-EBI scientists have developed CiteXplore, a tool
that links electronic literature resources to bioinformatics
databases, to fulfil this need. It integrates abstracts
from various resources including the US National
Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database of abstracts
from peer-reviewed biomedical journals, biological
abstracts from patent applications from the European
Patent Office, and Chinese Biological Abstracts from the
Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. From
these abstracts CiteXplore links to full-text articles at
various locations such as PubMedCentral and publisher
websites.
CiteXplore also provides a direct link between the scientific
literature and the EMBL-EBI's biological databases.
"When you are reading an abstract describing a specific
gene or protein, typically you want more information on
it, for example its sequence or its function, as well as easy
access to the full paper," says Peter Stoehr, who coordinates
CiteXplore. CiteXplore uses powerful text-mining
tools developed by EMBL-EBI researchers to link literature
and databases automatically, so that at the touch of
a button the biological terms are identified in the text
and you can call up the record of the molecule that you
are looking for.
In future, the range of literature resources hosted in
CiteXplore will be extended for better coverage of other
domains such as plant science, agricultural and food sciences,
and to integrate it with UK PubMedCentral, a
recently launched project led by a consortium comprising
the British Library, University of Manchester and
EMBL-EBI.
CiteXplore is freely available at www.ebi.ac.uk/citexplore.
Press Contact
Cath Brooksbank PhD
EMBL-EBI Scientific Outreach Officer
EMBL-EBI Hinxton
Tel: +44 1223 492 552,
Email: cath@ebi.ac.uk
Anna-Lynn Wegener
Press Officer
EMBL Heidelberg
Tel: +49 +6221 387-8452
Email: wegener@embl.de |
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