Objectives: This project is an attempt to visualize the results of PubMed searches in a variety of different ways: topics and how they overlap with Venn diagrams, aspects of a search (MeSH categories and subheadings) with ...

The E-utils interface is a powerful tool for querying the multitude of databases available at the NCBI, particularly PubMed. In this session, we'll explore how one can use this interface in conjunction with Google charts ...

Objectives: PubMed Clinical Queries are subdivided into “broad” and “narrow” versions, tuned to maximize retrieval sensitivity and specificity respectively by using similar but different sets of terms. This study seeks to ...

Objectives: Search Workbench is designed to facilitate the process of developing complex PubMed searches by allowing the user to examine, edit and visualize searches from a single interface. Importantly, the system not ...

Background : It can be daunting to begin the search process for a complicated question, particularly if a searcher is new to a topic and not yet familiar with the language used to describe it. As many biomedical searches ...

Background : Those who develop search hedges and systematic review strategies often use a process where they measure how effective a given search is at retrieving items from a set of “gold standard” articles. While this ...