Tuesday, December 05, 2006

BioMed Search

BioMed Search

BioMed Search has been created by Alex Ksikes, a PhD student in University of Cambridge. The goal of BioMed search is to organize figures, images or schema found in biomedical articles. Over 1 Million images have been indexed and more is on its way. BioMed Seach indexes image captions along with the citations to these images.

A sample search with the keyword insulin returns the following result
Insulin resistance is mediated by a proteolytic fragment of the insulin receptor." title="Click to enlarge">
Figure 2: Insulin-induced lipogenesis, glycogen synthesis, and glucose uptake in basal and insulin-resistant 3T3-L1 adipocytes: effects of E64 on insulin resistance. Panel A, effect of E64 on insulin-induced lipogenesis in cells chronically pretreated with insulin. 3T3-L1 adipocytes were pretreated with 1.7 µM insulin alone for 0 (C), 9 (9I), or 18 h (18I) ...
Knutson VP, Donnelly PV, Balba Y, Lopez-Reyes M · 1995 Oct 20

It is the well formated scientific literatures that makes the such search possible. Pay attention and try to improve it.

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