gopubmed: bringing pubmed and the semantic web together

December 22, 2007

I first noticed gopubmed when Berci mentioned it in a blog post a few days ago. It sort of fell off my radar until AltSearchEngines pointed to a new screencast explaining how the site is used.

My reaction was much the same as Berci’s. Wow!!!. gopubmed, developed by Transinsight in Germany, marries Pubmed to the semantic web to give you rich information about the searches you’ve performed, using a pretty neat interface. The interface does have its quirks, but it’s pretty slick and easy to understand.

Results are neatly organized by category dervived from MeSH terms and GO terms. You also get a list of top authors, top journals and date sorting, all in a very elegant navigation. All query terms also come with statistics, which can be very interesting on their own. The example below is one of the graphs from the statistics on the query “MM-PBSA”

All in all, I highly recommend the site. You get the Pubmed results you are used to, just with a lot more information content and in a more pleasing interface. There is an enterprise version as well which allows you to integrate patent searches and corporate intranets as well.

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