institute for computational biomedicine: Twease

[ description ]

Twease is a web-based tool to search Medline at the abstract level (available from http://twease.org). Twease indexes each word of Medline and provides features that can transparently expand your search to help find the information you are looking for.

Twease is being developed at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Since we distribute the source code under the GPL, you are welcome to reuse or extend the Twease application in any way you like.

[ documentation ]

Twease has its own tutorial and help system built into the web site. Additional materials relating to the comparative evaluation of Twease and PubMed can be found here.

queries.xml - All query terms and associated PMIDs

eval-judgments-and-results.zip - Evaluation judgments and results [Zip archive]

Evaluation.xls - Raw data for Precision/recall evaluation of Twease and PubMed [Excel format]

You may download the source code, but will need a full fledged software development environment (JDK1.5+, Ant 1.6+). By downloading this distribution, you agree to the terms of the Gnu General Public License.

Twease is developed using the following libraries / tools:
MG4J (2.0.1 with ICB modifications)

FastUtil (5.0.9)

Textractor

Tapestry (4.0.2)

Apache Commons

Prototype.js (1.4.0)

Yahoo UI

The latest development snapshot of the source code archived on August 2nd, 2006 is available for download. This version requires JDK 1.5+.

The Twease source code v20090512 (GPL)

The modified MG4J source 2.0.1-icb.2, based on 2.0.1 (LGPL)

If you find this software useful, please let us know in a quick email.

[ availability ]

Twease is web accessible: [ access Twease ]

News

Jul, 2009; ChIPseeqer, a comprehensive framework for analysis of ChIP-seq data developed in the Elemento lab, is now available for download. [More]
Apr, 2009; The BDVal program developed by the Campagne laboratory for MAQC-II is now available from http://bdval.org. The software supports the development and evaluation of predictive biomarker models from high-throughput data. The web site offers binary and source distributions. [More]
Jan, 2009; Twease now supports searching MEDLINE articles by Author, Journal, and Publication Year. Examples for performing these searches can be found in the updated Twease tutorial. [More]

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Events

Dec 11th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Fabien Campagne; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
Jan 15th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Lei Shi; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
Feb 12th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Christopher E. Mason; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
Mar 12th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Olivier Elemento; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
Apr 9th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Emre Aksay; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
May 14th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Jonathan D. Victor; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
Jun 11th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Harel Weinstein; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301
Jul 9th; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Institute for Computational Biomedicine Research in Progress Seminar Series - Duane Hassane; ICB Conference Room - Y.1301