Acumenta Online Research Assistant™
Category Cross-Omics>Data/Text Mining Systems/Tools
Abstract The Online Research Assistant represents a new, easier way to accomplish the important tasks of online research and literature review.
The Online Research Assistant is for scientists and information professionals in the life sciences.
Running on a researcher's desktop or laptop computer, Acumenta software enables researchers to create queries that yield substantially superior results when compared to direct searching of PubMed, patents and other biomedical databases.
Benefits of the Online Research Assistant --
According to the manufacturer, the use of Acumenta typically saves between 50% and 70% of the scientists' online research time and, more importantly, enables R&D scientists to:
1) Locate and use critical research findings that may impact R&D project outcomes.
2) Perform literature-based hypothesis generation and refinement.
3) Find important information treasures, such as key science hidden in patent documents and other biomedical databases, that would otherwise Not be found.
4) Keep current with the latest scientific developments.
5) Capture thinking in the context of specific external research documents and, where appropriate, share these insights with a project team and other colleagues in the R&D organization.
The Acumenta Online Research Assistant in More Detail --
To integrate smoothly into the workflow of the research scientist, the Online Research Assistant supports all three (3) types of online research queries:
1) ‘One-time, interactive questions’, often to test hypotheses, plan lab experiments or verify results;
2) ‘Retrospective research questions’ where it is important to save the results for incorporation into a presentation, report or publication; and
3) ‘Ongoing current awareness queries’ where staying up-to-date is critical.
To ensure that high quality search results are retrieved, a rapid, interactive, search tuning process for all three (3) types of queries is provided by the software.
The Online Research Assistant was designed by working directly with life scientists to understand the problems inherent in conducting online research the traditional way.
These online research hurdles are addressed in some very unique ways by the Acumenta software and Acumenta Gene Thesaurus™ (see G6G Abstract Number 20596).
Answers to the following questions should provide some understanding of how Acumenta Online Research Assistant™ operates.
1) What is different about the Acumenta searching process versus searching PubMed, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and other databases directly?
The Online Research Assistant:
- a) Supports easy formulation, testing and tuning of advanced queries prior to execution and maintains a query database.
- b) Searches multiple databases simultaneously with a single query.
- c) Runs searches on full experimental gene sets (including other search words) in a single query.
- d) Executes literature and patent queries and downloads results automatically to a researcher's desktop or laptop.
- e) Provides the Acumenta Gene Thesaurus™ for increased relevancy (precision) and thoroughness (recall) of search results.
2) How does the Online Research Assistant facilitate the process of literature and patent document review, assimilation and information management?
The Online Research Assistant:
- a) Inserts ‘navigation links’ into patent and other lengthy documents for quick access to important sections and search terms.
- b) ‘Highlights search terms’ as well as terms of importance for faster, more thorough review.
- c) Provides ‘Retain/Discard buttons’ to enable the scientist to keep valuable literature and eliminate irrelevant documents.
- d) ‘Does Not retrieve the same discarded documents again’ in the case of ongoing queries.
- e) ‘Exports results’ to Microsoft Excel®, EndNote® and Reference Manager®.
3) How does Acumenta help life scientists extract new meaning and biological relationships from search results?
The Online Research Assistant:
- a) Prepares a ‘gene co-occurrence analyses’ in the case of experimental gene set queries.
- b) Identifies experts and their standing in a scientific field using Acumenta's Author Analysis.
4) How does the Online Research Assistant enable a life scientist to stay on top of important developments relevant to his or her field?
It automates “what's new” for ongoing current awareness by delivering and organizing this information for presentation in the users' browser.
5) How does Acumenta extend, augment and preserve valuable search results and the individual thinking of R&D scientists?
The Online Research Assistant:
- a) Maintains and updates individual scientist knowledge bases of literature, patent documents and other biomedical information.
- b) Enables the capture of both private and public researcher annotations at the document level.
- c) Enables the sharing of search results and annotations with colleagues and collaborators.
- d) Delivers all public annotations associated with an external research document when it is retrieved by subsequent queries by any scientist within the R&D organization.
The net result: the Online Research Assistant increases the level of preparedness of individual scientists, R&D project teams and the entire R&D organization.
Note: No incremental IT infrastructure is required for the Online Research Assistant software or the shared annotation and search results capability.
System Requirements
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Manufacturer
- Acumenta Corporation
- 14 Derne Street - Suite 2
- Boston, MA 02114 USA
- Tel: 1- (617) 379-0694
- Sales & Marketing: sales@acumenta.com
- Customer Support: support@acumenta.com
- Corporate information: info@acumenta.com
Manufacturer Web Site Acumenta Online Research Assistant
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G6G Abstract Number 20597
G6G Manufacturer Number 104199