The Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System - a one-stop gatew

To bridge the gap between the rising information needs of biological and medical researchers and the rapidly growing number of online bioinformatics resources, we have created the Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection (OBRC) at the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of Pittsburgh. The OBRC, containing 1542 major online bioinformatics databases and software tools, was constructed using the HSLS content management system built on the ZopeÒ Web application server. To enhance the output of search results, we further implemented the Vivı´simo Clustering EngineÒ , which automatically organizes the search results into categories created dynamically based on the textual information of the retrieved records. As the largest online collection of its kind and the only one with advanced search results clustering, OBRC is aimed at becoming a one-stop guided information gateway to the major bioinformatics databases and software tools on the Web. OBRC is available at the...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Yi-Bu Chen, Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Phillip Bergen, Cynthia Gadd, Nancy Tannery
• Keywords: Bioinformatics Databases, NAR 2007, Online Bioinformatics, Online Bioinformatics Resources