title: PubMed Assistant: a biologist-friendly interface for enhanced PubMed search.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Laron M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berleant
authors.forename: Andy W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Fulmer
authors.forename: Eve Syrkin
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Wurtele
mesh_terms: 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