[Biodevelopers] MEDSUM: A new literature-summary interface to PubMed

[Mike Galsworthy]

Dear All,
 
At the Institute of Biomedical Informatics (IBMI),
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, we have
very recently developed a new bioinformatics tool
called MEDSUM.
 
The website is: 
http://webtools.mf.uni-lj.si/public/medsum.html
 
It's all free. You can just go to the website and put
any search term in the search bar. Then click one of
the four buttons.
 
The Profile button is used to return tabularized data
for any author, researcher or subject search entered.
Data returned are top 10 authors, top 10 journals,
animals:humans research ratio, age profiles of
populations used, MeSH categories, years, etc. The
Timeline buttons allows any search to be broken down
over years, even for huge topic areas such as
“depression” or “rats”. These
generated tables can be copy and pasted into Excel to
make graphs of the growth of any domain of literature
or any specific term. These buttons and others are all
explained, with examples and tips, on MEDSUM’s
tutorial page.  
I hope you enjoy it, and all feedback and suggestions
are very welcome. Since first putting it online a few
months ago, we have had users from over 50 countries
worldwide and lots of positive response. 

Finally, the general entry page to this tool and
BITOLA (our genetics-emphasis literature-based
discovery tool) is:
 
http://webtools.mf.uni-lj.si
 
Many thanks,
Mike



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