Tools to keep track of the literature

Diego Mauricio Riaño-PachónAG Mueller-Roeber

University of PotsdamGabiPD team - MPIMP

April 2008

http://molbio00.bio.uni-potsdam.de/eLit.ppt

Thousands of papers in hundreds of journals

• Computers: literature mining

Who reads all that?

• Humans: mmmm, not really.

How to make it easier?

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/ebimed/index.jsp

http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/

Interest

• Listen to science news (hot papers).• Keep track of TOCs of several

journals • Read reviews on specific papers.• Using the same keywords to search

PUBMED >1 per month/week

General

Specific

Listening to science news

e.g. Podcast: you can subscribe and be kept up to date.

• Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/

• Sciencehttp://www.sciencemag.org/about/podcast.dtl

e-TOC, e-alert

Electronic table of contents: get an e-mail with the TOC.

List of titles.

RSS, feed, channel

RSS feed: Very similar to e-TOC. Usually includes the abstract!

Using a RSS reader (also for blogs): Google Reader

Google (RSS) Reader

• http://www.google.com/reader

Google (RSS) Reader

• Adding subscriptions:

• Look for the RSS feed in the web page of the journal and copy.

• Add to the reader.

Go to gReader

Periodic searchesPubCrawler

http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/Automatic search Medline with a predefined query

Periodic searchesPubCrawler

http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/