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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 26, 2008
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2008 9(6):452-465; doi:10.1093/bib/bbn032
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This article appears in the following Briefings in Bioinformatics issue: Special Issue:Database Integration in Life Sciences [View the issue table of contents]

Categorization of services for seeking information in biomedical literature: a typology for improvement of practice

Jung-jae Kim and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

Corresponding author. Jung-jae Kim, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. Tel : +44 (0)1223 492 606; Fax : +44 (0)1223 494 468; E-mail: kim{at}ebi.ac.uk

Biomedical researchers have to efficiently explore the scientific literature, keeping the focus on their research. This goal can only be achieved if the available means for accessing the literature meet the researchers’ retrieval needs and if they understand how the tools filter the perpetually increasing number of documents. We have examined existing web-based services for information retrieval in order to give users guidance to improve their everyday practice of literature analysis. We propose two dimensions along which the services may be categorized: categories of input and output formats; and categories of behavioural usage. The categorization would be helpful for biologists to understand the differences in the input and output formats and the tasks they fulfil in information-retrieval activities. Also, they may inspire future bioinformaticians to further innovative development in this field.

Keywords: information retrieval, biomedical literature, literature analysis, literature mining, information behaviour, text mining, natural language processing

Submitted: January 16, 2008. Received (in revised form): July 3, 2008.


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