A method for indexing biomedical resources over the internet.
A large number of biomedical resources are publicly available over the Internet. This number grows every day. Biomedical researchers face the problem of locating, identifying and selecting the most appropriate resources according to their interests. Some resource indexes can be found in the Internet, but they only provide information and links related to resources created by the owner institution of each website. In this paper we propose a novel method for extracting information from the literature and create a Resourceome, i.e. an index of biomedical resources (databases, tools and services) in a semi-automatic way. In this approach we consider only the information provided by the abstracts of relevant papers in the area. Building a comprehensive resource index is the first step towards the development of new methodologies for the automatic or semi-automatic construction of complex biomedical workflows which allow combining several resources to obtain higher-level functionalities.
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Guillermo
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Biomedical Informatics Group, Artificial Intelligence Lab., Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain.
Garcia-Remesal
Miguel
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Maojo
Victor
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D020407:Internet; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012984:Software; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled