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[mesh]ups

Stewb — Mon, 15 May 2006 07:55:31 -0400

It's got a "humans" MeSH term - and humans are "mammals". Power of ontologies, yadda yadda.

Not that it makes the paper any more relevant - but that's why it's not in the abstract. :)

Where are the mammals?

ecacofonix — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:49:11 -0400

I adhere to what Google and Yahoo say about search engine technology being in its infancy. But what I'm a bit intrigued about it is, I couldn't find the word "mammal" in the original abstract ( not trusting my powers of observation, I used the "find" option on the browser)...so I wonder, if search engines are in their infancy or whether they are not yet born???

Vic, Castor Oil Online

Scholar

chris — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:58:36 -0400

Now, if we could get google scholar searches through H/Pubmed, that would be interesting...

The search engine on the

FiReaNG3L — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:49:54 -0400

The search engine on the NCBI website is dismal, at best. You think it's bad for Pubmed? Try the nucleotide one! Try to search for something common, say, GFP. It's result 2348 out of 2990. And it's the same for every search; the algorithm find thousands of very obscure results before the most relevant ones. Go figure :(

Not until you're done :)

Greg — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:36:52 -0400

Not until you're done :)

After which, drinks are on me, well, next time you see me in the same physical location anyway. Do let us know when the thesis is bound and at New South Q.

Amen

chris — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:54:31 -0400

Honest, guv, almost done. Now, how about a beer?

he's nearly there folks

Neil — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:16:25 -0400

Now there's a man who needs to finish a thesis and take a well-earned break :)

The glories of unexpected discovery

chris — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:30:00 -0400

As a card-carrying geek, I don't do anything so pedestrian as PubMed searches. Instead, I have Hubmed deliver common search content via RSS (cheers, alf!). A side effect of this system is that you see a lot more literature than you otherwise would, particularly for broad-brush searches. In some cases, this may be instructive, leading you to things that would have escaped your notice otherwise. In other cases, it leads you to the plain weird. As a case in point, a search for "regulatory variation AND mammals[mesh]", one of my standards, today popped up with this: