Table 1 Comparison of systems
Ferret | Quertle | Textpresso | MEDIE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brief description | Takes two lists of concepts as input. Retrieves sentences for pairs across two lists and pairs within one list. | Supports semantic searching of concept pairs. A concept may be a single entry or a class of objects via their Power Terms™. | Offers full-text, sentence retrieval from the literature of model organisms or diseases. Although categories of terms such as the cellular component hierarchy of GO may be selected, does not handle a specific list of concepts such as a set of genes. | Retrieves biomedical correlations by specifying pairs of concepts in subject – verb – object structure. Does not handle a list of concepts as input. |
Results | Retrieved 38 relevant sentences from 25 relevant PubMed documents referencing 26 species. | Found 1 of 25 relevant documents found by Ferret under focused results. | Found all 15 documents that refer to Arabidopsis. The 25 species referred to by 14 relevant sentences from 10 documents are not indexed by Textpresso. | Found 4 of the 25 relevant documents. |