[Obo-discuss] Anatomy Lens, a semantic search engine over PubMed articles

[Kavitha S. <ksr...@gm...>]

AnatomyLens provides a search over annotations of PubMed articles and  
GOA annotations using the GO (gene ontology) and FMA (Foundational  
Model of Anatomy) ontologies.  Here's a brief description:

Anatomy Lens is a search engine that helps scientists hone in on  
PubMed articles most relevant to their research. Users enter anatomy  
terms, MeSH terms, and biological processes as search keywords.  
Anatomy Lens is more precise and has better recall than text search.  
For example, for the query Alzheimer's, brain, neuron development,  
Anatomy Lens will match Alzheimer's articles that discuss dendrite  
development in the hippocampus, whereas a standard text search will  
only find articles containing the queried keywords explicitly and  
might also find articles that are unrelated (such as articles about  
neuron development in the spine).

Here's a URL to try it: https://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/

Here's a URL demonstrating the basics of AnatomyLens: http:// 
anatomylens.alphaworks.ibm.com/AnatomyLens/AnatomyLensVideo/ 
AnatomyLensVideo.html

Any feedback/comments are welcome.  Thanks!

Kavitha Srinivas
IBM Research, SHER OWL reasoning project.