Friday, January 22, 2010

Next Level of PUBMED

PUBMED is probably the most used and authenticated search engine for searching literature in biological and physical sciences.
PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations, abstracts and some full text articles on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains PubMed as part of the Entrez information retrieval system (source: Wikipedia).
Although, we can get a lot of search results and abstracts but sometimes we need summary of results for a particular keyword. For example if a search for keyword "fluorescent in-situ hybridization" , we can get results in the PubMed but what if we need to know the summary of all the results i.e. how many papers, authors classified in a proper way.
Here is a website that comes as solution to all the problems "THE MEDSUM: The Medline Summary tool" (Thanks to M.J. Galsworthy). MEDSUM provides a literature-summary interface to PubMed. It can generate "profiles" of authors or journals; or it can be used for status-of-literature data generation for review papers or grant applications.

Just give it a try, you can access this website at
MEDSUM

Its a very simple online tool to use but still if you want a tutorial, heres a link for that also
MEDSUM TUTORIAL

Hope you use the system and enjoy your research
till next time
Cheers

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