eTBLAST is a unique search engine for searching biomedical literature.
It is very different from PubMed. While PubMed searches for "keywords", eTBLAST search engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it.
This is something like PubMed's "Related Articles" feature, only better because it runs on your unique set of interests.
For example, input the abstract of an unpublished paper or a grant proposal into the search engine, and with the touch of a button you'll be able to find every abstract in MEDLINE dealing with your topic.
No more guessing whether your set of keywords has found all the right papers. No more sorting through hundreds of papers you don't care about.
When most people use PubMed to search MEDLINE they pick one or two keywords to describe their topic, then browse through a long list of results. When they find a paper that looks interesting they click on its "Related Articles", in hopes of finding more papers like that one. If they find another relevant paper, they explore it's related articles--and so on.
This process of culling long lists of documents by hand makes literature searching tedious and time consuming. eTBLAST makes it easier for you by providing better results the first time, and then allowing you to automatically combine the papers you care about for a second round.
The "Iterate" feature allows you to checkmark the abstracts you found interesting in the first round and combine them all to create a new query.
Results are sorted by relevance, while PubMed sorts by date.
You can save the time and effort of creating a complicated query.
You can iterate your search over several good papers to narrow your focus.
The full MEDLINE abstract is provided, and a link to the PubMed page.
You can send your results straight to your email.
http://invention.swmed.edu/etblast/index.shtml
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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