A Survey of Bioinformatics Database and Software Usage through Mining the Literature.

ABSTRACT: Computer-based resources are central to much, if not most, biological and medical research. However, while there is an ever expanding choice of bioinformatics resources to use, described within the biomedical literature, little work to date has provided an evaluation of the full range of availability or levels of usage of database and software resources. Here we use text mining to process the PubMed Central full-text corpus, identifying mentions of databases or software within the scientific literature. We provide an audit of the resources contained within the biomedical literature, and a comparison of their relative usage, both over time and between the sub-disciplines of bioinformatics, biology and medicine. We find that trends in resource usage differs between these domains. The bioinfo

SUBMITTER: Duck G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917176 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature