Mining the botulinum research literature
by Regina Z. Cer, Uma Mudunuri, Robert M. Stephens, Frank J. Lebeda
The Botulinum J. (TBJ), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2009

Abstract: The literature search section (botXminer) in the botulinum resource database (BotDB; http://botdb.abcc.ncifcrf.gov) contains a new query tool – 'Batch Search'. In basic mode, a user can submit a list of words or phrases that are used to conduct a sequential search of the titles, abstracts and MEDLINE contents of clostridial neurotoxin citations. A table of results is returned that contains the numbers of citations found for each query term that are, in turn, linked to information from PubMed and MEDLINE for each citation. In matrix mode, a user can join two lists of user-defined terms in which all of the results from the combinatorial pairs are returned in a matrix. Each matrix element is linked to a citation list. In both modes, searches can be refined by selecting a range of publication years. Examples of 'Batch Search' matrices are statistically analysed for their quality by calculating their recall and precision values.

Online publication date: Wed, 17-Feb-2010

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