Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction

FABLE (Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction) mines the biomedical literature for information about human genes and proteins and provides features to download their bibliographic data freely in excel and other format. FABLE v3 allows a user to find articles mentioning a gene of interest (Article Finder), to generate a list of genes associated with one [...]

e-Literature Searcher

e-LiSe (e-Literature Searcher) is an easy-to-use web-based application which finds biomedical information truly related to English words provided by the user. The program uses PubMed database of scientific abstracts as the source of data and a novel bio-linguistic statistical method (based on Z-score), to discover true correlations, even when they are low-frequency associations.   e-LiSe [...]

Semantic search of MedLine Database

The Medline.Cognition provides the alternative searching of Medline Database. Cognition’s Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) adds word and phrase meaning and understanding. It’s worth to try once.  

Patent for generating oxygen in a process that mimics photosynthesis

A group of scientists from Battelle has earned a patent for generating oxygen in a process that mimics photosynthesis. The technology creates oxygen and controls carbon dioxide using light energy and water without having to make electricity. The machine can operate on almost any light source — solar or other — to chemically duplicate what [...]

Indian Patent Office Databases

Indian patent office provides the online patent searching. ·         Public Search for granted Patents: provides the patent no. search and provides full text of Indian Patents. This search has been categorized in following sections: §   Public Search for Patents (No. 1 – 80000) §   Public Search for Patents (No. 80001 to 1,53,697) §   Public Search [...]

Key patent strategies for nanotechnology inventors

A very useful article has been published by Nanowerk Spotlight on patent strategies for nanotechnology inventors.  Following are the excerpts from the article  At its simplest, a country’s patent system provides for the disclosure of information about inventions. To obtain a patent, an inventor must ‘teach’ the public how to make and use the invention [...]

First induced pluripotent stem cell patent – Kyoto University

Long debate is going on all over world for issuance of Patents on Stem Cells. Kyoto University has obtained a Japanese patent for a means to develop induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.  iPS cells have the potential to grow into any type of body tissue. It is the first time a patent has been granted [...]