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MEDSUM - The MEDLINE/PubMed Summary Tool
is a free online tool which takes standard PubMed/MEDLINE queries (such as authors,
journals, and topic searches), and returns summary information. You can generate 'profiles' on
researchers you know, or explore the favourite subjects of journals you might want to submit
to... or you can even generate graphs on the growth of the literature on any subject (e.g.
schizophrenia, MRI, potassium channels) since 1945. Author: Mike Galsworthy |
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BITOLA - A Biomedical Discovery Support System
is a free online tool for research hypothesis generation, hypothesis explanantion, and
also as an alternative way to search MEDLINE. BITOLA allows you to find links between
different life-sciences concepts using MeSH terms. For example, if you have just found a link
between the gene DRD5 and adolescent depression, you can use Bitola to find potential
explanations which have not yet been explicitly suggested in the literature. BITOLA will hunt
for all known associates of DRD5, and all known associates of adolescent depression. It will
then return you the terms that overlap with both. This list may include interesting potential
genetic, biochemical or morphological links, for example. Authors: Dimitar Hristovski, Borut Peterlin |