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  1. Biomedical scientists need to access figures to validate research facts and to formulate or to test novel research hypotheses. However, figures are difficult to comprehend without associated text (e.g., figure...

    Authors: Hong Yu, Shashank Agarwal, Mark Johnston and Aaron Cohen
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2009 4:1
  2. The term blue skies research implies a freedom to carry out flexible, curiosity-driven research that leads to outcomes not envisaged at the outset. This research often challenges accepted thinking and introduc...

    Authors: Belinda Linden
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2008 3:3
  3. PubMed is designed to provide rapid, comprehensive retrieval of papers that discuss a given topic. However, because PubMed does not organize the search output further, it is difficult for users to grasp an ove...

    Authors: Neil R Smalheiser, Wei Zhou and Vetle I Torvik
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2008 3:2
  4. Improved evaluation methodologies have been identified as a necessary prerequisite to the improvement of text mining theory and practice. This paper presents a publicly available framework that facilitates tho...

    Authors: William A Baumgartner Jr, K Bretonnel Cohen and Lawrence Hunter
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2008 3:1
  5. Biological organisms and their components are better conceived within categories based on similarity rather than on identity. Biologists routinely operate with similarity-based concepts such as "model organism...

    Authors: Celeste Michelle Condit and L Bruce Railsback
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2007 2:5
  6. Most biomedical corpora have not been used outside of the lab that created them, despite the fact that the availability of the gold-standard evaluation data that they provide is one of the rate-limiting factor...

    Authors: Helen L Johnson, William A Baumgartner Jr, Martin Krallinger, K Bretonnel Cohen and Lawrence Hunter
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2007 2:4
  7. Collaborative efforts of physicians and basic scientists are often necessary in the investigation of complex disorders. Difficulties can arise, however, when large amounts of information need to reviewed. Adva...

    Authors: Kristina M Hettne, Marissa de Mos, Anke GJ de Bruijn, Marc Weeber, Scott Boyer, Erik M van Mulligen, Montserrat Cases, Jordi Mestres and Johan van der Lei
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2007 2:2
  8. Data management and integration are complicated and ongoing problems that will require commitment of resources and expertise from the various biological science communities. Primary components of successful cr...

    Authors: P Bryan Heidorn, Carole L Palmer and Dan Wright
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2007 2:1
  9. Annotation of proteins with gene ontology (GO) terms is ongoing work and a complex task. Manual GO annotation is precise and precious, but it is time-consuming. Therefore, instead of curated annotations most o...

    Authors: Francisco M Couto, Mário J Silva, Vivian Lee, Emily Dimmer, Evelyn Camon, Rolf Apweiler, Harald Kirsch and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:19
  10. Understanding how humans differ from other animals, as well as how we are like them, requires comparative investigations. For the purpose of documenting the distinctive features of humans, the most informative...

    Authors: Todd M Preuss
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:17
  11. Scientific and popular lore have promulgated a connection between emotion and the limbic forebrain. However, there are a variety of structures that are considered limbic, and disagreement as to what is meant b...

    Authors: Karl H Pribram
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:14
  12. One of the most pressing and timely scientific questions concerns the evolution of man. In 1970, Karl Pribram delivered the James Arthur Lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His ...

    Authors: Neil R Smalheiser
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:12
  13. The network model of innovation widely adopted among researchers in the economics of science and technology posits relatively porous boundaries between firms and academic research programs and a bi-directional...

    Authors: Tim Lenoir and Eric Giannella
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:11
  14. Knowledge bases that summarize the published literature provide useful online references for specific areas of systems-level biology that are not otherwise supported by large-scale databases. In the field of n...

    Authors: Gully APC Burns and Wei-Cheng Cheng
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:10
  15. The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience was launched in the fall of 1999 with support from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Research Alliance, and our eight participating institutions (Georgia State...

    Authors: Kelly R Powell and H Elliott Albers
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:9
  16. Arrowsmith is a unique computer-assisted strategy designed to assist investigators in detecting biologically-relevant connections between two disparate sets of articles in Medline. This paper describes how an ...

    Authors: Neil R Smalheiser, Vetle I Torvik, Amanda Bischoff-Grethe, Lauren B Burhans, Michael Gabriel, Ramin Homayouni, Alireza Kashef, Maryann E Martone, Guy A Perkins, Diana L Price, Andrew C Talk and Ruth West
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:8
  17. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was a seminal genomic technology discovered, developed, and patented in an industry setting. Since the first of its core patents expired in March, 2005, we are in a position to ...

    Authors: Joe Fore Jr, Ilse R Wiechers and Robert Cook-Deegan
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:7
  18. The hypothesis that distance matters but that in recent years geographical proximity has become less important for research collaboration was tested. We have chosen a sample–authors at German immunological ins...

    Authors: Frank Havemann, Michael Heinz and Hildrun Kretschmer
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:6
  19. Occasionally, multiple names are given to the same gene/protein. When this happens, different names can be used in subsequent publications, for example in different research areas, sometimes with little or no ...

    Authors: Hari Manev and Radmila Manev
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:5
  20. The goal of the TREC Genomics Track is to improve information retrieval in the area of genomics by creating test collections that will allow researchers to improve and better understand failures of their syste...

    Authors: William R Hersh, Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju, Laura Ross, Phoebe Roberts, Aaron M Cohen and Dale F Kraemer
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:3
  21. This informal tutorial is intended for investigators and students who would like to understand the workings of information retrieval systems, including the most frequently used search engines: PubMed and Googl...

    Authors: Wei Zhou, Neil R Smalheiser and Clement Yu
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:2
  22. The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration was created to provide, for the first time, a unified forum to consider all factors that affect scientific practice and scientific discovery – with an emphasi...

    Authors: Neil R Smalheiser
    Citation: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:1