Biomedical Engineering – From Theory to Applications

Biomedical Web, Collections and Meta-Analysis Literature Applications
There are a lot of resources, tools and services available for the management of literature
Biology specializes in keeping with the needs and challenges of our time, the most efficient
could be installed in the browser for better and faster use.
Fig. 3. Chrome personalized browser for biomedical literature retrieval.
2.1.1 Search engines and meta-searchers
There are thousands of search engines in the Internet, a program that searches documents
for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
They create a web pages database that use any algorithm to classify the web pages (wikis,
blogs, sites, …), the most biggest and also the most used for general research are Google,
Bing, Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, and Ask. But there are some scholar biomedical search
engines that filter and index specialized and certified web pages like Scirus, Scientific
WebPlus, Orefil, Nextbio or Quertle (Table 1).
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