title: GenderMedDB: an interactive database of sex and gender-specific medical literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Searches for sex and gender-specific publications are complicated by the absence of a specific algorithm within search engines and by the lack of adequate archives to collect the retrieved results. We previously addressed this issue by initiating the first systematic archive of medical literature containing sex and/or gender-specific analyses. This initial collection has now been greatly enlarged and re-organized as a free user-friendly database with multiple functions: GenderMedDB (http://gendermeddb.charite.de).
  
  
  METHODS
  GenderMedDB retrieves the included publications from the PubMed database. Manuscripts containing sex and/or gender-specific analysis are continuously screened and the relevant findings organized systematically into disciplines and diseases. Publications are furthermore classified by research type, subject and participant numbers. More than 11,000 abstracts are currently included in the database, after screening more than 40,000 publications. The main functions of the database include searches by publication data or content analysis based on pre-defined classifications. In addition, registrants are enabled to upload relevant publications, access descriptive publication statistics and interact in an open user forum.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Overall, GenderMedDB offers the advantages of a discipline-specific search engine as well as the functions of a participative tool for the gender medicine community.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Gender in Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hessische Str. 3/4, Berlin 10117, Germany ; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oertelt-Prigione
authors.affiliation: Structural Bioinformatics Group, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 13125, Germany ; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
authors.forename: Björn-Oliver
authors.initials: BO
authors.lastname: Gohlke
authors.affiliation: Structural Bioinformatics Group, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 13125, Germany.
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dunkel
authors.affiliation: Structural Bioinformatics Group, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 13125, Germany.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Preissner
authors.affiliation: Institute of Gender in Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hessische Str. 3/4, Berlin 10117, Germany ; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany ; Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany.
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Regitz-Zagrosek
keywords: Archive; Database; Gender differences; Literature; Search engine; Sex differences