OBJECTIVE To understand the experience of the informationist recipients of NLM-funded Administrative Supplements for Informationist Services and gather evidence for their impact on NIH-funded biomedical research. METHODS A mixed methods approach consisting of a survey of principal investigators and a focus group of informationists. RESULTS Informationists appeared to have a positive impact ...

Center for Infectious Disease Imaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences...

ion Summarization for Managing the Biomedical Research Literature Marcelo Fiszman Thomas C. Rindflesch Halil Kilicoglu Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD 20894 {fiszman|tcr|halil}@nlm.nih.gov

The NZDL aims to impose structure on anarchic and uncataloged repositories of information, providing information consumers with effective tools to locate and peruse what they need. Our goal is to produce an easy-to-use digital library system that runs on inexpensive computers at information providers’ own sites and offers an information service that information providers themselves maintain. Ne...

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, USA, Structural and Computational Biology Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid E-28029, Spain, National Center for Biotechnol...

A Survey of Human Disease Gene Counterparts in the Drosophila Genome Mark E. Fortini,* Marian P. Skupski, ‡ Mark S. Boguski, § and Iswar K. Hariharan i *Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104; ‡ Celera Genomics, Rockville, Maryland 20850; § National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Insti...

In the biomedical domain, word sense ambiguity is a widely spread problem with bioinformatics research effort devoted to it being not commensurate and allowing for more development. This paper presents and evaluates a learning-based approach for sense disambiguation within the biomedical domain. The main limitation with supervised methods is the need for a corpus of manually disambiguated insta...

Journal Descriptor Indexing (JDI) is a vector-based text classification system developed at NLM (National Library of Medicine), originally in Lisp and now as a Java tool. Consequently, a testing suite was developed to verify training set data and results of the JDI tool. A methodology was developed and implemented to compare two sets of JD vectors, resulting in a single index (from 0 - 1) measu...