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XTractor now has a ready reckoner on Drugs , Diseases , Proteins & Processes along with sample manually annotated sentences form PubMed available on each of those Drugs , Diseases , Proteins & Processes listed there. This is really going to be handy for any bench scientist. Be part of XTractor community. XTractor the first of its kind - Literature alert service , provides manually curated & annotated sentences for the Keywords of your choice XTractor maps, extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies Enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biologically significant relationships The categorized sentences could then be tagged and shared across multiple users Provides users with the ability to create his own database for a set of Key terms Users could change the Keywords of preference from time to time, with changing research needs XTractor thus proves to be a platform for gett...

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 .

Ask XTractor - XTractor™ now turns ON its ‘Insta Search’. Get a snapshot of the XTractor data for your desired query using the Insta Search feature. Which are the biological processes involved in Leukemia? What are the drugs associated with Ovarian Neoplasm? What are the diseases modulated by FRAP? Then get a snapshot of the XTractor data from the latest published abstracts on your questions using the 'Insta Search' feature. 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...

US FDA , NIH , NCI , MD Anderson , Harvard Medical School , Novartis , Wyeth , AstraZeneca , Vertex , P&G , JNJ many more subscribe to XTractor. “XTractor™ is an intelligence that works so unconscious even for the users to perceive. It is fascinating as to how quickly XTractor transforms the most complex scientific facts into structured knowledge almost instantaneously by bringing about cross entity relationships across abstracts thereby aiding in quicker decision making through the Drug Discovery process” Bangalore, India, October 12, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Indian Life Sciences Informatics Company, Molecular Connections announced today, that its XTractor™ - The first of its kind scientific literature alert service launched in July ‘08 has built a user base of over 900 users form more than 150 premier organizations. XTractor™ has been widely accepted and received well in the scientific fraternity both the academia and the industry across the globe. Be a part of the XTractor commun...

Blogging about curation in the past several issues have been discussed but here is something very critical. To thrive, the field that links biologists and their data urgently needs structure, recognition and support. Biocuration , the activity of organizing, representing and making biological information accessible to both humans and computers, has become an essential part of biological discovery and biomedical research. But curation increasingly lags behind data generation in funding, development and recognition. Three urgent actions to advance this key field. First, authors, journals and curators should immediately begin to work together to facilitate the exchange of data between journal publications and databases. Second, in the next five years, curators, researchers and university administrations should develop an accepted recognition structure to facilitate community-based curation efforts . Third, curators, researchers, academic institutions and funding agencies should, in the ...

Molecular Connections , a life sciences informatics major, is now looking at acquiring small and medium-sized companies as part of its inorganic growth strategy. "The acquisition will depend on good technology fit and domain expertise that could plug into our products and services,'' Jignesh Bhate, CEO, Molecular Connections Pvt Ltd told Pharmabiz . "We are aggressively scouting for companies both in India and abroad. If we lay our hands on an international company, we will have access to their customers. In the case of an Indian company, we are essentially looking at a synergy in content and database,'' Bhate said. To facilitate these acquisitions, Molecular Connections has identified three options to raise funds: internal accruals, foreign loans and venture funds. The mode of raising capital will depend on the size of the deal and the company is in talks with foreign banks. Around $2 million was raised from Barings Private Equity in 2006 for expansion. Early...

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 ...