OReFiL: an Online Resource Finder for Lifesciences
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Database Description
OReFiL is a search system for online life science resources. It is built from an automated crawler that scans URLs that appear in MEDLINE abstracts and from full-text papers on BioMed Central from open-access journals. URLs are extracted using regular expressions and rules based on heuristic knowledge. The resources are then indexed to facilitate their retrieval and comparison by researchers. Because every online resource has at least one PubMed ID, it has a summary with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms.
A query can be any keyword. Each keyword can be modified to specify a context by adding the following modifiers after it: .tiab for titles and abstracts (e.g.,apoptosis.tiab), .auth for author names, and .mesh / .majr / .noexp for MeSH terms. An example is Proteins.mesh (a mesh term followed by ".mesh" is for all kinds of MeSH headers, by ".majr" for those of MeSH headers of major topics with semantic expansion, or ".noexp" for those without semantic expansion).
OReFiL was developed at the University of Tokyo
Authors
- Yasunori Yamamoto and Toshihisa Takagi
