COVIDScholar

COVIDScholar provides automated NLP-enabled search and organization of over 260,000 research articles, patents, and clinical trials related to COVID-19 to facilitate rapid retrieval and analysis of research findings.


Key Features:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): Applies NLP to index, search, and organize COVID-19 literature and to support complex query-based retrieval.
  • Comprehensive Database: Aggregates and manages a corpus of over 260,000 research articles, patents, and clinical trials related to COVID-19.
  • Trend Analysis: Provides analytical capabilities to examine research trends and shifts in scientific focus over time.

Scientific Applications:

  • Literature Review: Supports efficient review and retrieval of studies, patents, and clinical trials on COVID-19.
  • Trend Analysis: Enables identification of emerging research areas and temporal shifts in COVID-19 research emphasis.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Research: Facilitates cross-disciplinary exploration by integrating diverse document types including articles, patents, and clinical trials.

Methodology:

Implements natural language processing to enhance searchability and organization of the corpus and includes computational trend-analysis of the aggregated documents.

Topics

Collections

Details

License:
Apache-2.0
Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Added:
3/15/2023
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Dagdelen J, Trewartha A, Huo H, Fei Y, He T, Cruse K, Wang Z, Subramanian A, Justus B, Ceder G, Persson KA. COVIDScholar: An automated COVID-19 research aggregation and analysis platform. PLOS ONE. 2023;18(2):e0281147. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281147. PMID:36724184. PMCID:PMC9891495.

PMID: 36724184
PMCID: PMC9891495
Funding: - Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: DE-AC02-05CH11231 - Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy: NERSC DDR-ERCAP0021505