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

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]
Jan, 2009; The free bioinformatics walk-in clinics are back and will be available every Monday, 2-4pm at the Weill Cornell Medical Library, in the Computer Room on the lower level. [More]

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Events

Jul 7th; 1:00pm-2:00pm: Understanding Computation in Large Neuronal Networks - Yasser Roudi, Ph.D.; Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics; LC-504 [Physiology and Biophysics Special Seminar]
Nov 1st: Sequencing of Individual Genomes: Impact on Society and Ethics ; Geneva, Switzerland [HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Ethics, Law and Society]