Using the biological taxonomy to access biological literature with PathBinderH.
PathBinderH allows users to make queries that retrieve sentences and the abstracts containing them from PubMed. Another aspect of PathBinderH is that users can specify biological taxa in order to limit searches by mentioning either the specified taxa, or their subordinate taxa, in the biological taxonomy. Although the current project requires this function only for plant taxa, the principle is extensible to the entire taxonomy.


BACKGROUND
www.plantgenomics.iastate.edu/PathBinderH. Source code and databases on request.
Ding
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Viswanathan
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Berleant
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Hughes
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Wurtele
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Ashlock
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Dickerson
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Fulmer
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Schnable
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D010944:Plants / Q000145:classification*; D039781:PubMed; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled