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XTractor - Discovering Newer Scientific Relations Across Abstracts http://www.xtractor.in/ Literature alert service, that provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the Keywords of user preference. XTractor maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies and enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biological significant relationships and it also provides the user with the ability to create his own database for a set of Key terms. Also the user could change the Keywords of preference from time to time, with changing research needs. The categorized sentences could then be tagged and shared across multiple users. Thus XTractor proves to be a platform for getting real-time highly accurate data along with the ability to Share and collaborate. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subjec...

Previously blogging about Smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research discussed about the latest trends in literature abstraction, alert services and analysis tools. This time as a sequel check out one of the finest alert service using the web 2.0 technology. It is absolutely FREE! It is very simple, just visit the site www.xtractor.in and register. Almost immediately you are provided with a user-name and pw to access the alert service. Smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research II Talking about the development in the field of literature and scientific publication search. Looking beyond NLP some of the advancements and service models based on NLP and other advanced methods. Today to the user's delight there are quite a few companies and organization that provide services that absolutely make a scientist life easy! These services revolve around customized alert services for selected search terms, specific research area of interest even more so pertaining to a ...

18 Ways to Improve your PubMed searches Be a part of the XTractor community. XTractor is the first of its kind - Literature alert service , that provides manually curated and annotated sentences for the Keywords of user preference. XTractor maps the extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies and enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biological significant relationships and it also provides the user with the ability to create his own database for a set of Key terms. Also the user could change the Keywords of preference from time to time, with changing research needs. The categorized sentences could then be tagged and shared across multiple users. Thus XTractor proves to be a platform for getting real-time highly accurate data along with the ability to Share and collaborate. Sign up it's free, and takes less than a minute. Just click here: www.xtractor.in .

The first of its kind - SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE alert service which also provides manually annotated sentences for the keywords of YOUR preference Highly accurate , manually annotated sentences for given keywords. Daily scientific literature updates at your desktop along with extracted facts - manually curated. Provision to change keywords with your changing research preferences. Annotated sentences and abstracts get stored in your profile, as and when they get updated in PubMed. Classify and create your own datasets of annotated facts. Enhanced experiences of reading & analyzing literature. Access your profile / datasets from anytime, anywhere. Discover and Create newer relations from scientific facts classified by the XTractor™ Community. Tag your favorite abstracts and share them across other users. Much more faster and an Absolutely Free Service PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS Abstract Summarization The XTractor™ system would provide extracted relations in addition to id...

Have you been wondering about possibility of automating every scientific workflow? : The Taverna Interaction Service: enabling manual interaction in workflows by Anders Lanzén and Tom Oinn Taverna is an application that eases the integration of tools and databases for life science research by the construction of workflows. The Taverna Interaction Service extends the functionality of Taverna by defining human interaction within a workflow and acting as a mediation layer between the automated workflow engine and one or more users. Try Taverna plugin is very likely an answer to automation of bioinformatics workflows... (Bioinformatics Advance Access abstract)