Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Ologeez: PubMed Remixed
Filed under: Net News
Researching the life sciences on PubMed can be a tricky proposal, and the system could use a number of improvements. Thankfully, PubMed provides a publicly available programming interface (API) of its article collection for outside developers to exploit and build upon, and some folks from Stanford have done just that. 
Ologeez! is at its core a new way to access PubMed's database, wrapped in various new social tools that should help researchers and clinicians find, share, and organize scientific knowledge, based on their specific needs. Basic search features are open to the public, while tagging, sharing, and the like are being kept within the academic community to preserve credibility of the information.
Ologeez! is new and will require members to use it for a bit before the value of all this organizing becomes apparent. With enough usage and a large number of participants, this may become a new standard in life science research.
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