Biomedical research happens
in networks of researchers. Social networking web sites like FaceBook, LinkedIn
and Xing use personal networks to establish contacts. On these sites, however,
connections must be defined by the users themselves. Now,
Transinsight’s GoPubMed completely and automatically
extracts collaboration networks from millions of biomedical science
publications. For each concept in the selected semantic background knowledge,
GoPubMed’s “Hot-Topic-View” shows the collaboration network between top authors
in this field of research. Collaboration networks can now be experienced and
visualized. GoPubMed also now allows these networks to be searched for possible
experts and collaboration partners, a feature which leads to tremendous time
saving when searching for appropriate experts. This feature is especially
important in a specialized scientific world where it is becoming more and more
vital to set up temporary teams of highly specialized experts. Read the
press
release.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has
launched the Human Microbiome Project. The human
microbiome is the collective genomes of all microorganisms present in or
on the human body. “The human microbiome is largely unexplored,” said NIH
Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. “It is essential that we understand how
microorganisms interact with the human body to affect health and disease.” Part
of the NIH’s Roadmap for Medical Research, the Human Microbiome Project will
award a total of $115 million to researchers over the next five years. Read
the press release.
The Allen Institute
for Brain Science has made available new open resources and tools for
researchers, all freely available online to accelerate progress by scientists
worldwide toward understanding the brain in health and disease. The resources
include an expanded, now complete, image-based gene expression dataset from the
Institute's federally-funded sleep study-an entirely new resource presenting
the Institute's first human cortex gene expression data-and enhancements to the
Allen Brain Atlas. The Allen Institute's projects are publicly available at no
cost at http://alleninstitute.org/content/projects.htm.
Technical details of the latest release can be found by following the
<More> link in the Announcements box on the Allen Brain Atlas start
page at http://www.brain-map.org.