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A Novel Search Engine Supporting Specific Drug Queries and Literature Management

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The growing concern for acquired microbial resistance is promoting the publication of a large number of clinical and biological antimicrobial studies. Most of these publications can be obtained by searching the PubMed database, but the broad scope and huge size of this collection make the search challenging, and time consuming. This paper presents an advanced search engine for the screening of up-to-date information on drug-related experimental studies. The main contributions lay on the resource-oriented architecture and the semantic analysis of the documents. The RESTful API enables the use of the searchable collection by different user interfaces whereas text mining tools support domain-specific document labeling, scoring and indexing. A small search engine demo indexing articles on antimicrobial peptide research is available at http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/sds/. The source code is also accessible from the same homepage and freely available under MIT License.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially funded by the following projects: [14VI05] Contract-Programme, from the University of Vigo, and [TIN2013-47153-C3-3-R] Platform of integration of intelligent techniques for analysis of biomedical information, from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

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  1. ESEI - Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática Edificio Politécnico, Campus Universitario as Lagoas S/N, Universidad de Vigo, 32004, Ourense, Spain

    Alberto G. Jácome, Florentino Fdez-Riverola & Anália Lourenço

  2. Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Anália Lourenço

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  1. Fellowship for the Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, Illinois, USA

    Ross Overbeek

  2. Centre of Biological Engineering, Department of Informatics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Miguel P. Rocha

  3. Department of Informatics, University of Vigo, ESEI: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Ourense, Spain

    Florentino Fdez-Riverola

  4. Departamento de Informática y Automática, University of Salamanca, Facultad de Ciencias, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan F. De Paz

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Jácome, A.G., Fdez-Riverola, F., Lourenço, A. (2015). A Novel Search Engine Supporting Specific Drug Queries and Literature Management. In: Overbeek, R., Rocha, M., Fdez-Riverola, F., De Paz, J. (eds) 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 375. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19776-0_11

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