PubMed Assistant: a biologist-friendly interface for enhanced PubMed search.
MEDLINE is one of the most important bibliographical information sources for biologists and medical workers. Its PubMed interface supports Boolean queries, which are potentially expressive and exact. However, PubMed is also designed to support simplicity of use at the expense of query expressiveness and exactness. Many PubMed users have never tried explicit Boolean queries. We developed a Java program, PubMed Assistant, to make literature access easier in several ways. PubMed Assistant provides an interface that efficiently displays information about the citations and includes useful functions such as keyword highlighting, export to citation managers, clickable links to Google Scholar and others that are lacking in PubMed.
Ding
Jing
J
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Hughes
Laron M
LM
Berleant
Daniel
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Fulmer
Andy W
AW
Wurtele
Eve Syrkin
ES
D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D039781:PubMed; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface