Table 3

Some currently available web-based tools that allow users to carry out post-processing of PubMed queries.

Type
Site
URL
Features

TYPE 1: extract relationships and allow for 1) graphical visualization or navigation; or 2) refining queries
AliBaba [15]
http://alibaba.informatik.hu-berlin.de/
Extract relationships between biological objects and map them into a graphical network

BioIE [16]
http://umber.sbs.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/bioie/
Extract informative sentences from retrieved results

Chilibot [17]
http://www.chilibot.net/
Extract biological relationships from search results

ConceptLink [18]
http://project.cis.drexel.edu/conceptlink
Extract relationships between medical concepts and allow graphical visualization

PubNet [29]
http://pubnet.gersteinlab.org/
Extract several relationships from the search results and then map them into networks

XplorMed [20]
http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/xplormed/
Extract dependency relations among words and allow users to refine queries using these words




TYPE 2: organize results by ontologies or hierarchies
GoPubMed [21]
http://www.gopubmed.org/
Sort PubMed query results through Gene Ontology and MeSH hierarchy

MEVA [22]
http://www.med-ai.com/meva/index.html
Summarize search results according to MeSH hierarchy

FABLE [23]
http://fable.chop.edu/
Tag gene and protein occurrences in text

PubReMiner [24]
http://bioinfo.amc.uva.nl/human-genetics/pubreminer/
Categories include words, MeSH, authors, journals, year, substances and country

PubMed Assistant [25]
http://metnet.vrac.iastate.edu/browser/
Lists MeSH and chemicals, with link-outs to PubMed, Google and Google Scholar




TYPE 3: cluster articles into categories
Vivísimo ClusterMed [26]
http://clustermed.info/
Cluster articles into several categories

HubMed [27]
http://www.hubmed.org
Cluster related articles and allow for graphical visualization




TYPE 4: rank articles
PubFocus [28]
http://www.pubfocus.com/
Rank articles by the journal impact factor and volume of forward references

ReleMed [29]
http://www.relemed.com/
Rank articles by relevance

Smalheiser et al. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2008 3:2   doi:10.1186/1747-5333-3-2