title: Sagace: a web-based search engine for biomedical databases in Japan.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the big data era, biomedical research continues to generate a large amount of data, and the generated information is often stored in a database and made publicly available. Although combining data from multiple databases should accelerate further studies, the current number of life sciences databases is too large to grasp features and contents of each database.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have developed Sagace, a web-based search engine that enables users to retrieve information from a range of biological databases (such as gene expression profiles and proteomics data) and biological resource banks (such as mouse models of disease and cell lines). With Sagace, users can search more than 300 databases in Japan. Sagace offers features tailored to biomedical research, including manually tuned ranking, a faceted navigation to refine search results, and rich snippets constructed with retrieved metadata for each database entry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sagace will be valuable for experts who are involved in biomedical research and drug development in both academia and industry. Sagace is freely available at http://sagace.nibio.go.jp/en/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamental Research, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, 7-6-8 Saito Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Mizuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Maori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Yi-An
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chioko
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nagao
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakaguchi
authors.forename: Ryuichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakate
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Masui
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizuguchi
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D007564:Japan