Research
Collaborative development of the Arrowsmith two node search interface designed for laboratory investigators
1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois, MC912, 1601 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
3 Neuroscience Program and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
4 Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
5 Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA Current address: Bioinformatics Program, University of Memphis, USA
6 National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and Department of Neurosciences, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006, 1:8 doi:10.1186/1747-5333-1-8
Published: 3 July 2006Abstract
Arrowsmith is a unique computer-assisted strategy designed to assist investigators in detecting biologically-relevant connections between two disparate sets of articles in Medline. This paper describes how an inter-institutional consortium of neuroscientists used the UIC Arrowsmith web interface http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu webcite in their daily work and guided the development, refinement and expansion of the system into a suite of tools intended for use by the wider scientific community.
