April 01, 2006
Search Engine For Biomedical Specialists
A research team from the Biotechnology Centre at the Technical University of Dresden has designed a special search engine. Transinsight is a company focused on the life sciences that provides products and solutions for intelligent search technologies. Their main product is GoPubMed
GoPubMed can search literature repositories, websites, intranets and desktops. It indexes results and thus allows users to explore a large body of results in a structured manner.
In contrast to classical search engines, GoPubMed can answer questions using its background knowledge in molecular biology, medicine, drug development and food science. To illustrate this point, a search for 'aspirin inhibits' on a classical search engine returns a large number of unstructured results that do not answer the user's original question. On the other hand, a search with GoPubMed reveals that the most frequently mentioned pathway for 'aspirin inhibits' is the cyclooxygenase pathway.
Thanks to its groundbreaking and competitive product, the young company has already won its first corporate customer – Unilever in the UK. The company states that "GoPubMed helps us to quickly screen the vast literature for hidden gems and to discover trends in science."
The start-up company has also been quick to attract investment. This past January, it was announced that Transinsight had received €500,000 of seed funding from Germany's recently established High-Tech-Gründerfonds and a further undisclosed sum from a private investor in Hamburg.
Posted by rsk at April 1, 2006 10:22 PM