BioText Search Engine

  • Authors:
  • Marti A. Hearst;Anna Divoli;Harendra Guturu;Alex Ksikes;Preslav Nakov;Michael A. Wooldridge;Jerry Ye

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Summary: The BioText Search Engine is a freely available Web-based 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 Contact:divoli@ischool.berkeley.edu and hearst@ischool.berkeley.edu