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New Feature: Upload your list of terms on DistilBio and discover connections
Do you have a long list of terms and want to find all connections available for them? There are times when you have a list of terms and finding connections for each of them, co-relating and analyzing the data can … Continue reading
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Tagged Chebi, Chembl, DistilBio, Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology, new feature, Uniprot, upload terms
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Metaome releases the “DistilBio Terms Bookmarklet”
Metaome has released the DistilBio Terms bookmarklet which detects and lists biomedical concepts such as genes, proteins, drugs, compounds and pathway mentioned in a webpage. This is similar to the app released by Metaome for Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. Now the app … Continue reading
DistilBio – New features and Data
Over the past few weeks we have been adding new features and data to enhance the user experience. Some of the new features are detailed below.
Posted in Announcements, DistilBio
Tagged DistilBio, drugbank, evidence, features, new release, numerical operators, protein domain, provenance, regex, regular expression, swissprot
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DistilBio Terms App now available in Elsevier’s ScienceDirect
The DistilBio Terms application detects and lists biomedical concepts such as genes, proteins, drugs, compounds and pathway mentioned in the article. Once the user has installed the app, it is visible when viewing ScienceDirect articles and detects the terms using … Continue reading
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Tagged App, biomedical concepts, DistilBio, DistilBio terms, Elsevier, life-science ontology, ontology, ScienceDirect
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Improved Autosuggest
The DistilBio team has been working at improving the “autosuggest” to make querying easier and to display more relevant options to the user. Based on user feedback new features have been added to the autosuggest some of which are listed … Continue reading
DistilBio: Tell us what you think
It has been two months since we launched DistilBio, our semantic search engine for the life sciences. We have had quite a bit of traction: so a big thanks to all those that visited. To those haven’t been there yet, … Continue reading
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Autosuggest ranking in DistilBio – New feature
A new feature enhancement in DistilBio is ranking of terms in the autosuggest drop-down according to their relevance. Previously, for instance, while querying for a drug, the autosuggest would suggest properties of drugs according to alphabetical order. This has been … Continue reading
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Tagged autosuggest, connections, data properties, DistilBio, features, ranking
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Compound searches and their bio-activities in DistilBio
In my previous posts, I had focused on queries for drugs, diseases and proteins using DistilBio. Apart from this, DistilBio also contains data on bioactive chemical compounds from databases like ChEMBL and ChEBI. Experimental data properties, assays, cell line information … Continue reading
Posted in DistilBio, Use case
Tagged aromatase, assay, breast cancer, cell line, Chebi, Chembl, chemical compound, chemspider, compound, CP19A, DistilBio, drug discovery, letrozole, patent, tissue
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Where does this piece of Data come from?
DistilBio integrates data sets from various sources like Entrez Gene, Uniprot, DrugBank, PharmGKB, CTD, CHEMBL, protein interaction databases like IntAct, MINT etc. Each connection is backed by a data source. Let us look at an example to see how data … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, cross-reference, ctd, data source, DistilBio, drug, drugbank, Entrez Gene, epirubicin, IntAct, MINT, pharmgkb, Uniprot
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