Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

Coremine Medical gives you quick access to detailed information on diseases, drugs, treatments and medical biology. When you search Coremine Medical you access a database that is structured to relate important terms to your search word. Another important feature of Coremine is the Workspace that allows you to save your searches and results. The Workspace makes it easy for you to come back to a subject and continue to explore and learn. Also, functions within the Workspace and at other points in Coremine provide tools for making notes and sharing results.

e-Biosci is clever in that it accepts any text as input (an abstract, or even a whole manuscript, although it was quite sluggish!) and calculates the concepts contained within. You can add and remove concepts to refine your search, and weight how important they are, and then search using these concepts in Medline abstracts and some full text, including BioMed Central's. The advantage of this approach is that you never need to think about appropriate keywords or search terms; the disadvantage is that some concepts are quite diverse. A good example is that an abstract about physician uncertainty in medical decision-making returned some physics articles near the top! I find that it can return items that you probably wouldn't have found otherwise, and can be very accurate at times.

PubNet from the Gerstein lab looks really promising. It visualizes the network resulting from a query to Medline. The network to the left, focussed around Howard Ochman and Emmanuel Lerat, clearly shows a network of collaborating colleagues, but I only ran that search because I knew of the network already. It could be useful, but I've not found the time to devote to exploring its possibilities, and it takes a while to generate the visualization at times. If it were quicker and easier to navigate the results,

PubFinder is an automated intelligent text analysis tools for improving retrieval rate of relevant PubMed abstracts relevant for a specific scientific topic. Requires the input of a representative set at least 8 abstracts as a starting point, which are central for a scientific topic. Based on the inputted abstracts, a a hit-list of references is returned to the user, in order of their probability of belonging to the defined scientific topic according to the PubFinder algorithm.

PubMed PubReMiner is a helpful tool for researcher. It is a web-based tool that allows simple text-based query building and information gathering(mining) of the NCBI literature search engine PubMed...look for its features below: PubReMiner will query pubmed with your specified search query, get all abstracts and generate frequency tables. The first table will show you journals in which your query is published the most. The second table will show you the authors which are most active in the field of your query. The third table will show you words that have been used most in the title and abstract of the articles. Furthermore, Address fields, MESH headers and publication year are displayed. All elements can be added to your query, and will thus make sure that your refinement still generates results. When you are satisfied with the query, you can jump to pubmed and view the results. Next to building efficient queries, Pubreminer can also be helpful in other areas: *Selecting a j...

ClusterMed from Vivisimo uses the Vivisimo Velocity Search Platform to organize PubMed's extensive inventory of medical research articles into dynamic categories that help users easily navigate search results. The Velocity Clustering Engine allows end users to view results organized, or clustered, by topic, author, mesh headings and date. This resource helps regular Pubmed users reduce research time, improve research effectiveness and quickly view an overview on a new or peripheral research area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distant education is now converting into online education . If you are a born English and you wish to learn Spanish you have to translate english to spanish in order to learn Spanish by direct method. Online institutes like Walden University and Capella University are two best serving universities which offer variety of courses for overseas students.

PubCrawler is a Perl script for an "alerting" service which scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. When PubCrawler is set up to run daily, the results can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests. The current release (version 2.2; dated 6th October, 2004) can be downloaded from this site and is freeware.

GoPubMed a novel ontology-based search engine for biomedical literature. GoPubMed gives an overview over search results by classifying them according to the GeneOntology, a hierarchical vocabulary for processes, functions, and cellular components.

Google Scholar is widely know as a value research paper search tool. Its search results can be restricted to the years of your choice.