BIRI: a new approach for automatically discovering and indexing available public bioinformatics resources from the literature

Table 5 Evaluation of the BIRI contents against other indexes

Index Name	Total Resources Indexed	Matches	New in BIRI
*Bioinformatics Links Directory*[6, 7]	1350	235	81
*Pathguide*[37]	293	10	306
*Online Bioinformatics Resource Collection*[38]	2368	231	85
*ExPASy Life Science Directory*[39]	1253	15	301
*Molecular Biology Database*[5]	1171	28	288
*Database of Databases*[40]	1056	33	283
*Resources at the EBI*[8]	111	22	294

We compare the resources contained in the curated BIRI knowledge base with the resources indexed by other public indexes at the time of writing this paper. The table shows: i) the total number of resources indexed by each index, ii) the number of matches found between BIRI and the index, and iii) the number of resources existing in BIRI knowledge base that do not exist in the other index.

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