LitSuggest

LitSuggest recommends relevant PubMed articles using machine learning to support biomedical literature discovery and curation.


Key Features:

  • Advanced machine learning techniques: Applies text-processing and machine learning methods to identify pertinent PubMed literature beyond keyword-based search.
  • Literature classification: Performs classification of articles to organize and prioritize literature for review.
  • Customizable training corpus: Supports updating the training corpus to fine-tune recommendation models.
  • Automated personalized weekly digests: Produces automated personalized weekly digests of recommended articles.

Scientific Applications:

  • Systematic reviews: Assists in identifying and classifying articles relevant to systematic review inclusion criteria.
  • Meta-analyses: Aids in assembling relevant literature sets for quantitative synthesis.
  • Hypothesis generation: Facilitates discovery of relevant publications to inform hypothesis formulation.
  • Literature curation: Supports ongoing curation and maintenance of up-to-date literature collections for biomedical research.

Methodology:

Applies text-processing methods and machine learning for classification and recommendation of PubMed articles, with a customizable training corpus.

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Details

Tool Type:
web application
Added:
10/4/2021
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Allot A, Lee K, Chen Q, Luo L, Lu Z. LitSuggest: a web-based system for literature recommendation and curation using machine learning. Nucleic Acids Research. 2021;49(W1):W352-W358. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab326. PMID:33950204. PMCID:PMC8262723.