Informatics

As Informaticians, you need the highest quality input so you can:

  • Analyze full-text biomedical literature efficiently to best target and prioritize development, so you don't miss opportunities that aren't in article abstracts
  • Discover new biomarkers
  • Filter documents for safety and other toxicology processes

The quality of input drives the quality of insight from text analytics. Today, the challenge of accessing large numbers of full-text articles often limits text analytics to article abstracts. Critical information found only in the full text of articles often goes undiscovered, and research efforts are held back. One major pharmaceutical company benchmarked the insight advantage of full-article analytics vs those based solely on abstracts at 3X to 10X, depending on the topic.

QUOSA tackles your three major challenges to improved advanced text analytics

  • Efficiently gathering the full-text articles required for the workflow in one place

QUOSA offers the only product that can perform queries in common literature databases such as PubMed, OvidSP, DataStar, Dialog, Scopus, Web of Knowledge, or Google Scholar and then facilitates retrieval of multiple full-text articles from your subscription base. An automated process allows you to assemble a corpus of up to thousands of full-text articles for your analysis workflow.

  • Enabling robust full-text search and highlighting to maximize insight from the full-text content

QUOSA provides access to the full-text articles you need to perform advanced, comprehensive, robust full-text analytics. It further enables you to address many questions with its powerful full-text search and highlighting.

  • Creating the XML format required by your analytics tools

QUOSA can also provide the output needed for further analysis with a variety of third-party analytics software.

What QUOSA offers Informaticians
Download all of the required full-text articles with one click Automate the retrieval of full-text articles based on your subscriptions, utilizing algorithms to control download rates, with a special version of Information Manager.
Analyze the literature set using full-text search Use QUOSA's specialized indexing capability for such things as hyphen removal and conversion of image-based characters to searchable strings.  Advanced boolean and proximity searching and highlighting functionality, also with support for left truncation, regular expressions, and a variety of special characters, help users zero in on the most relevant articles.
Generate XML output for interoperation with your preferred analytics tools Produce XML files including the tagged meta-data and configure to your specific DTD.
Simplify and consolidate your alerts Collect and analyze alerts to gather timely articles for your analytic process. Create shared-project-specific collections of relevant literature and related documents. Support flexible team tagging.
Search multiple databases and conference sites Search database platforms such as PubMed, OvidSP, and Web of Knowledge as well as the abstracts from your key conferences.
Customize the discovery process with configurable metadata Create automated tagging of references and other standard headings.