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BioText Search Engine

Posted by Marcus Zillman

BioText Search Engine
http://biosearch.berkeley.edu/

Developed as part of the BioText project at the University of California, Berkeley, the BioText Search Engine is a freely available Web-based application that provides biologists with new ways to access the scientific literature. The interface has been carefully designed according to usability principles and techniques. Three views allow different types of browsing: a) Abstracts (List View): Allows users to search over titles, abstracts and authors. Returns a list of abstracts showing the figures associated with each article, b) Captions (List View): Allows users to search over captions. Returns a list of captions and their figures, and c) Captions (Grid View): Allows users to search over captions. Returns figures and truncated captions in a grid arrangement. The system uses Lucene for the underlying indexing, and users can use all the Lucene operators in their search queries. The search engine is a work in progress and more functionality will be added over time. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the code source for eHealthcareBot Search Engine.

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