DLAD4U: deriving and prioritizing disease lists from PubMed literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to recent technology advancements, disease related knowledge is growing rapidly. It becomes nontrivial to go through all published literature to identify associations between human diseases and genetic, environmental, and life style factors, disease symptoms, and treatment strategies. Here we report DLAD4U (Disease List Automatically Derived For You), an efficient, accurate and easy-to-use disease search engine based on PubMed literature.

Results

DLAD4U uses the eSearch and eFetch APIs from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to find publications related to a query and to identify diseases from the retrieved publications. The hypergeometric test was used to prioritize identified diseases for displaying to users. DLAD4U accepts any valid qu

SUBMITTER: Shen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6309061 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature