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MedMiner: an Internet Text-Mining Tool for
Biomedical Information, with Application to Gene Expression Profiling
Tanabe L, Scherf U, Smith LH, Lee JK, Hunter L, Weinstein JN
Biotechniques 1999 Dec;27(6):1210-4, 1216-7
Abstract: The trend toward high-throughput techniques in molecular
biology and the explosion of online scientific data threaten to overwhelm the ability of
researchers to take full advantage of available information. This problem is particularly
severe in the rapidly expanding area of gene expression experiments, for example, those
carried out with cDNA microarrays or oligonucleotide chips. We present an Internet-based
hypertext program, MedMiner, which filters and organizes large amounts of textual and
structured information returned from public search engines like GeneCards and PubMed. We
demonstrate the value of the approach for the analysis of gene expression data, but
MedMiner can also be extended to other areas involving molecular genetic or
pharmacological information. More generally still, MedMiner can be used to organize the
information returned from any arbitrary PubMed search.
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