Links from Nextbio in ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect has partnered with NextBio to connect articles with additional research content and experimental data from sources such as PubMed, GEO, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Using life science relevant ontologies, synonym recognition, gene and protein linkages, and tissue and disease nomenclature, links are made between experimental data and peer-reviewed content. A box on the right side of each abstract screen lists the key terms (gene names, chemicals, tissues, etc.) extracted from a ScienceDirect article. Clicking on a term will take you to an overview page where you will see associated content and will be able to find relevant information fast, thereby accelerating your scientific discovery. There's a 4-minute overview YouTube video. These features remind me of the Project Prospect enhancements from RSC featured in an earlier blog post.

Comments

[Kamesh Janakiraman]

Curious if the ontology mapping, synonym recognition, gene and protein linkage etc., are text mined/NLP based or Expert curated? http://lukeskywaran.blogspot.com/2009/08/curated-databases-and-data-curation_11.html

[Ruth Lewis]

My guess is text mined. This link may be helpful: http://www.nextbio.com/b/corp/content.nb