BioAsk, the discovery informatics engine for the life sciences industry has been covered in "The Hindu" dated 29-Jan-07. A section of the article is below.

Vertical Search: new dimensions

"NetSpeak", The Hindu, dated 29-Jan-07

.... authentic search output.

If you are a biologist or a medical doctor or a life science researcher, take a look at BioAsk (http://www.bioask.com), a search tool targeted at life science researchers, from Svapas (http:// www.svapas.com) . The distinct feature of BioAsk, which mines data from PubMed (a common resource for life science researchers), provides several tools for generating efficient output, with relevant and focused links.

Rather than dishing out several web pages that contain the search string, BioAsk attempts to study the content and helps its user unearth different concepts/entities lying hidden in the various article abstracts.

When you search for a specific string, the service organises the result into clusters based on bio-entities such as protein/gene, disease, drug/chemical and so on. This helps the researcher easily narrow down the output to the area of his research concern.

For instance, if you wish to obtain information on certain aspect of `medicinal plants', say, `pests of medicinal plants', you can invoke a search on `medicinal plants' and then narrow down the output by selecting the relevant chemicals (pesticides) from the cluster `Drug/Chemical'. Besides providing a variety of tools to zoom on the relevant data, the service has some means (like `specialisation filter') to change the order of the output.

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