Abstract Sifter: a comprehensive front-end system to PubMed

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The Abstract Sifter is a Microsoft Excel based application that enhances existing search capabilities of PubMed. The Abstract Sifter assists researchers to search effectively, triage results, and keep track of articles of interest. The tool implements an innovative “sifter” functionality for relevance ranking, giving the researcher a way to find articles of interest quickly. The tool also gives researchers a view of the literature landscape for a set of entities such as chemicals or genes. The Abstract Sifter is available as a Microsoft Excel macro-enabled workbook application. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Baker, N., T. Knudsen, and A. Williams. Abstract Sifter: a comprehensive front-end system to PubMed (F1000 Research). F1000 Research. Faculty of 1000, London, UK, 6: 1-10, (2017).

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identifier	https://doi.org/10.23719/1504291
programCode	[ "020:095" ]
references	[ "https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.12865.1" ]
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