PDQ Wizard: automated prioritization and characterization of gene and protein lists using biomedical literature.
CONCLUSIONS
PDQ Wizard automates the process of interrogating biomedical references using large lists of genes, proteins or free text. Using the principle of linkage through co-citation biologists can mine PubMed with these proteins or genes to identify relationships within a biological field of interest. In addition, PDQ Wizard provides novel features to define more specific relationships, highlight key publications describing those activities and relationships, and enhance protein queries. PDQ Wizard also outputs a metric that can be used for prioritization of genes and proteins for further research.


BACKGROUND
PDQ Wizard is freely available from http://www.gti.ed.ac.uk/pdqwizard/.
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The Scottish Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics, University of Edinburgh 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK. Graeme.Grimes@ed.ac.uk
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Beattie
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011381:Programming Languages; D039781:PubMed; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface