Gene2MeSH: Automated Literature Based Genome Annotation May 3, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Bioinformatics, Gene, genetics, Invention, Medicine.trackback
Some weeks ago, I mentioned on Twitter how hard it is to find proper gene-disease associations in Pubmed, the database of health-science data. Some days later, P. F. Anderson sent me this link: Gene2MeSH.
Gene2MeSH was described 2 me as mapping various terms used 2 describe the same gene, or genes assoc w/ medical term
I gave it a try and made a search for psoriasis:
It looks like an interesting and useful idea, while the MeSH heading column seems to be totally unnecessary, for example.
I will keep on using it and will let you know how it goes.
Further reading:
[...] Source : ScienceRoll [...]
[...] as well. It would be interesting to see how and why it shows only these genes (take a look at Gene2Mesh for a clearer [...]