Spanish Researchers Develop Classification Tools

By Melody Smith|August 13th, 2010|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off

August 13, 2010 – Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid have developed a tool that can discover and automatically classify bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature. They have even used it to compile a searchable index of software and databases.

This news was brought to our attention by GenomeWeb.com in their article, “Spanish Team Develops Tool to Help Researchers Stay on Top of the Bioinformatics ‘Resourceome’”. This comprehensive article details the process used to build the index, called the Bioinformatics Resource Inventory, or BIRI, which they have been working on since 2008. Automatic index generation is certainly advanced, but without a solid taxonomy to rely on, the results could be shallow. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ISO/ANSI/NISO compliant taxonomies.

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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Spanish Researchers Develop Classification Tools