TY - JOUR
T1 - NeuroExtract
T2 - Facilitating Neuroscience-oriented Retrieval from Broadly-focused Bioscience Databases Using Text-based Query Mediation
AU - Crasto, Chiquito J.
AU - Masiar, Peter
AU - Miller, Perry L.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - This paper describes NeuroExtract, a pilot system which facilitates the integrated retrieval of Internet-based information relevant to the neurosciences. The approach involved extracting descriptive metadata from the sources using domain-specific queries; retrieving, processing, and organizing the data into structured text files; searching the data files using text-based queries; and, providing the results in a Web page along with descriptions to entries and URL links to the original sources. NeuroExtract has been implemented for three bioscience resources, SWISSPROT, GEO, and PDB, which provide neuroscience-related information as sub-topics. We discuss several issues that arose in the course of NeuroExtract's implementation. This project is a first step in exploring how this general approach might be used, in conjunction with other query mediation approaches, to facilitate the integration of many Internet-accessible resources relevant to the neurosciences.
AB - This paper describes NeuroExtract, a pilot system which facilitates the integrated retrieval of Internet-based information relevant to the neurosciences. The approach involved extracting descriptive metadata from the sources using domain-specific queries; retrieving, processing, and organizing the data into structured text files; searching the data files using text-based queries; and, providing the results in a Web page along with descriptions to entries and URL links to the original sources. NeuroExtract has been implemented for three bioscience resources, SWISSPROT, GEO, and PDB, which provide neuroscience-related information as sub-topics. We discuss several issues that arose in the course of NeuroExtract's implementation. This project is a first step in exploring how this general approach might be used, in conjunction with other query mediation approaches, to facilitate the integration of many Internet-accessible resources relevant to the neurosciences.
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U2 - 10.1197/jamia.M2321
DO - 10.1197/jamia.M2321
M3 - Article
C2 - 17329721
AN - SCOPUS:34247391553
VL - 14
SP - 355
EP - 360
JO - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
SN - 1067-5027
IS - 3
ER -