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It is boom time for Indian science. The country’s scientific stock has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade - perhaps one of the few positive spin-offs of its burgeoning population. Riding high on an enviable scientific demography (Inature-india.JPGndia produces over 0.1 million science post doctorates annually), she is making a mark worldwide as a knowledge superpower. Today, India is one of the best outsourcing hubs for the information and technology industry. The country has emerged a major global production centre with hundreds of multinational companies in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors setting up research and development centres here. Reverse brain drain is a happy reality for India. Its best scientists are returning home as institutes and laboratories get equipped with state-of-the-art R&D facilities and the country’s science policy becomes innovation-friendly. While India basks in this global attention, the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has launched ...

A generic drug is a pharmaceutical product, usually intended to be interchangeable with an innovator product, that is manufactured without a licence from the innovator company and marketed after the expiry date of the patent or other exclusive rights. Generic drugs are marketed under a non-proprietary or approved name rather than a proprietary or brand name. Generic drugs are frequently as effective as, but much cheaper than, brand-name drugs. For example, paracetamol is a chemical ingredient found in a number of brand-name painkillers, but is also sold as a generic drug (not under a brand name). Because of their low price, generic drugs are often the only medicines that the poorest can access. The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement does not prevent governments from requiring accurate labelling or allowing generic substitution. Indeed, it is argued that competition between drug companies and generic producers has been more effective than negotiation...

Anne O'Tate: This search tool will help you gain an overview of the set of articles (up to 25,000 most recent articles) retrieved by a PubMed query. Once you enter a query, you can select different types of summary information to view.

LitMiner is a literature data mining tool that is based on the annotation of key terms in article abstracts followed by statistical co-citation analysis of annotated key terms in order to predict relationships. Key terms belonging to four different categories are used for the annotation process: Genes: Names of genes and gene products. Gene name recognition is based on Ensembl . Synonyms and aliases are resolved. Chemical Compounds: Names of chemical compounds and their respective aliases. Diseases and Phenotypes: Names of diseases and phenotypes Tissues and Organs: Names of tissues and organs

PubFocus web server automates analysis of MEDLINE/PubMed search queries by enriching them with two widely used human factor-based bibliometric indicators of publication quality: journal impact factor and volume of forward references. In addition to providing basic volumetric statistics, PubFocus also prioritizes citations and evaluates authors impact on the field of search. PubFocus also analyses presence and occurrence of biomedical key terms within citations by utilizing controlled vocabularies.

FABLE = “ F ast A utomated B iomedical L iterature E xtraction” FABLE mines the biomedical literature for information about human genes and proteins. FABLE v2 allows a user to find articles mentioning a gene of interest (Article Finder), or to generate a list of genes associated with one or more keywords (Gene Lister).

Ali Baba parses PubMed abstracts for biological objects and their relations as discussed in the texts. Ali Baba visualizes the resulting network in graphical form, thus presenting a quick overview over all information contained in the abstracts.

ExpertMapper examines all medical publications that are indexed in the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. We rank the expertise of each author according to the number and type of articles that each expert has authored on the specific condition, disease, or treatment of interest to you.

eTBLAST : A text similarity-based engine for searching biomedical literature collections. While PubMed searches for "keywords", eTBLAST search engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it.

PubViz is developed to provide the capability of utilizing external knowledge as well as interactive visual query functions for more efficient exploration of the Medline database. The current version has the ability to utilize protein-protein interaction data during Medline search and enable researchers to identify functionally related Medline records not retrievable in existing search engines. It can also utilize the structure relationship of different type of genetic markers including cytobands, microsatellite/STS markers, SNPs and genes derived from human genome assembly and HapMap data for deep search of genetically related Medline records. We include many visualization functions in PubViz, such as interactive PMID, MeSH, Gene views, the transition between different views, selection of node description display on network graph, as well as details of abstract and sorting/filtering functions. The combination of these novel capabilities will make PubViz a powerful tool for Medline ex...

Get abstracts for both PMID 2676911 and PMID 6189501: http://pmid.us/2676911+6189501 Get the full text article for PMID 10221304: http://pmid.us/full:10221304 Full text retrieval priority: PMC > publisher (free) > FindArticles > publisher (fee) > abstract Get related articles for PMID 10221304: http://pmid.us/rel:10221304 Search for anything (you must escape non-url-friendly characters ): http://pmid.us/alopecia+minoxidil http://pmid.us/(alopecia+OR+baldness+OR+%22hair+loss%22)+AND+(tnf-alpha+OR+tgf-beta)

MEDIE is an intelligent search engine to retrieve biomedical correlations from MEDLINE. You can find abstracts/sentences in MEDLINE by specifying semantics of correlations; for example, "What activates p53" and "What causes colon cancer". Semantic search is to use a semantic query for finding biomedical correlations. Input a subject, a verb, and an object of a concept (or either of them) into a form.

Curehunter - A online tools for Precision Medial Data Mining. It provides a lots on information relating to a particular disease and can be of very use to researchers. Following is its a few features: Related Therapies/Procedures Related Drugs/Important Bio-Agents Related Diseases Network Graph

Healia PubMed/Medline Search is a search engine specifically designed to help consumers find information in the PubMed/Medline dataset in a user-friendly way. Healia PubMed/Medline Search retrieves abstracts (published summaries) of journal articles. Healia’s PubMed search (currently in beta) might be one of the best interfaces available for clinicians who don’t have the search skills to effectively search PubMed through its native interface.

This is very useful tool created by Pierre Lindenbaum , First, the user select a set of articles about a given subject from pubmed, the software then download, prepare and format the data for a new wikipedia page. For example it creates the ‘references’ part and suggest the Categories: from the Mesh terms. I’ve also included a dictionary which recognize some regex patterns to help create a wikipedia internal link. You can see more and download it here .

For the first time ever, search the world's conference abstracts from thousands of medical and scientific meetings, through BioWizard . It integrates PubMed search also.

PubMed is now available as a search engine add-on on the search bar in the upper-right corner of Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. From a PubMed Web page, click the search box drop down arrow next to the default search engine Google, and then select Add PubMed search.

Here are some tools to enhance your PubMed searching. Some of these also link to full-text articles and the original citation records in PubMed. ClusterMed - This is a Vivissimo product that clusters the 100-500 most recent PubMed results into categories. The results can be clustered and re-clustered by MeSH headings or authors alone, or by a combination of MeSH and title/abstract words. Users can register for a 30-day trial and get the 500-result sets, and unregistered users can use ClusterMed for 100-result sets. The original demo for PubMed is still available and will bring back result sets of 200. my.PubMed - This PubMed search interface one allows you to create a personal user account and save your searches and have new citations e-mailed to you on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. There's also an xml button option if you want to save the search as an RSS feed in an aggregator like NewzCrawler. HubMed - Also offering an xml button option, this is the simplest of the al...

Quintura allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right. KartOO is a visual search engine that employs several different visualization methods. In the following search for “The Sopranos,” the left side reveals folders with additional related topics, while the right presents a cloud of potential links to follow. Upon mousing over one of these links, the left side is replaced with a Snap.com-style preview, while the right side shows how the link relates to other topics.

The Finance Minister has provided much expected relief in personal income taxes. Given the increasing cost of living, medical, education and housing, the relief may not be adequate but is a move in the right direction. While there is no change to the individual tax rates, the tax liability for individuals will reduce owing to a higher threshold exemption limits and revised income slabs. Type of tax payer Income slabs Tax Payable Resident Senior Citizens 0 – 2,25,000 NIL 2,25,001 – 3,00,000 10% 3,00,001 – 5,00,000 75,00 + 20% of income above 3,00,000 5,00,001 & above 47,500 + 30% of income above 5,00,000 Resident Women below 65 years 0 – 1,80,000 NIL 1,80,001 – 3,00,000 10% 3,00,001 – 5,00,000 12,000 + 20% of income above 3,00,000 5,00,001 ...