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| BioScholar | |
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| BioScholar is a practical Knowledge Management application for use by a domain scientist in a lab. The system is supposed to act as a local knowledge base for an individual PI to build a curated database for published material pertaining to their in-house research. This is now a fully developed (Beta) software application for download by the community. It's primary technical contribution is the realization of a practical software system that instantiates the KEfED model. | |
| Website: | http://www.bioscholar.org/ |
| System Demo: | Neural Connectivity Demo |
| Google Code Project: | Google Code Page |
| Installers: | Google Code Downloads Page |
| Source Code for Releases: | Google Code SVN Page |
| Paper: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/351 |
| Layout-Aware PDF Text Extraction | |
| The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the almost universally used file format for online scientific publications. It is also notoriously difficult to read and handle computationally, presenting challenges for developers of biomedical text mining or biocuration informatics systems that use the published literature as an information source. To facilitate the effective use of scientific literature in such systems we have developed Layout-Aware PDF Text Extraction (LA-PDFText). | |
| Google Code Project: | Google Code Page |
| Installers: | Google Code Downloads Page |
| Paper: | Submitted to BMC Bioinformatics |
| The 'NeuARt' Neuroanatomical Mapping System | |
| The neuroanatomical maps of Dr Larry Swanson's laboratory beautifully illustrate the organization of neural connectivity in the Rat Brain. The work needed to generate these maps requires that researchers draw each relevant map over atlas plates to register the distribution of fibers in the context of a brain atlas. These data are valuable and require tools to present them to users within the community. The NeuARt software provides a web-based atlas-viewing tool that provides access to these maps (Note that at present, NeuARt is only available as an online demo with password protection due to copyright restrictions). | |
| Demo system (password protected): | Demo |
| Google Code Project: | Google Code Page |
| INCF Project Page: | INCF Software Page |