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Re: Dell gets into scientific networking

Cameron Neylon — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:01:28 -0000

Somewhat amusingly it also has me down as someone who knows something about mice. This had me puzzled for a while - I thought it must be something to do with the bioinformatics work but it turns out that the reason is a paper with the title "A molecular mousetrap determines polarity of termination of DNA replication in E. coli."

Re: Dell gets into scientific networking

mndoci — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:45:20 -0000

That's a failure in text analysis/entity extraction, which is probably due to the limitations of PubMed, although one would think that Collexis would do better at that. It also explains why it picked up only three of my papers, since a good chunk are not there in Pubmed at all.

What we need is a nice semantically enabled abstract database, free and open of course.

Re: Dell gets into scientific networking

Cameron Neylon — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:52:50 -0000

Its interesting that it seems to get things most wrong (in terms of people's expertise and lists of papers) around the area of boundaries between chemistry, biology, engineering, and physics. I guess this is due to the use of PubMed which lead me to think, is there actually a free source of abstracts that goes beyond what PubMed handles? Without such a thing a lot of these types of efforts are doomed to failure in interdisciplinary areas, which is precisely where they are most useful.

Re: Dell gets into scientific networking

mndoci — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:44:19 -0000

SciLink does ring a bell. Will take a look at it soon.

Jean-Claude ... just added you. There are two Deepak Singh's in there if I recall. I'm the one with all the rhodopsin/vision papers :)

Re: Dell gets into scientific networking

Jean-Claude Bradley — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:12:29 -0000

I added a Deepak Singh to my network but not sure if it is the right one :)

Re: Dell gets into scientific networking

Brian Gilman — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:54:40 -0000

Check out SciLink. It's been around for a little longer and has some of the same functionality.