VADLO is a life sciences search engine A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web, privately owned by Life in Research, LLC., based in Illinois Chicago ( /ʃɨˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɨˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in both Illinois and the Midwest, and the third most populous city in the United States, with over 2.8 million living within the city limits. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland", is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million, USA ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language. VADLO caters to life sciences and biomedical researchers, educators, students, clinicians and reference librarians. In addition to providing focused search on biology research methods, databases, online tools and software, VADLO is also a resource for powerpoints on biomedical topics,[1] mainly for which, VADLO was named one of the top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008 by AltSearchEngines.[2]
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Search Categories
VADLO offers search within five categories:
- Protocols - for molecular biology and other life sciences methods, techniques, and how to make reagents.
- Online Tools - for bioinformatics tools such as gene prediction, sequence manipulation, PCR primer design etc.
- Seminars - for powerpoint lectuers in biology and medical fields.
- Databases - for information about genes, proteins, mutations, plants and organisms, diseases.
- Software - for bioinformatics software.
Search Relevance
VADLO is a vertical search engine, geared towards biomedical researchers. VADLO indexes only the webpages that have relevance to biomedical research; categorizes them in one of the five search categories, and returns results according to its relevance-rank algorithm . This process filters out non-research websites and makes the search results more specific in comparison to general-purpose search engines. VADLO index is built by supervised crawling of the web as well as by moderated user-submission. VADLO powerpoint index is built incorporating only the powerpoint files, with subject such as biology research, academia matters such as grants and funding,bioinformatics, biostatistics, biology education, medical topics such as diseases, treatment, literature, library topics relevant to biomedical reference librarians, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry related topics.[3]
Genes and Proteins
One aspect of VADLO is that researchers can search for a gene or protein of their interest in the "Database" category, and receive reports from multiple large-scale databases. This precludes researchers from having to individually interrogate each of these numerous databases. In addition, genes that share their names with common terms, get obscured in the search results from search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. Because of the vertical indexing limited to biomedical topics, this does not happen with VADLO search results. (for example: ATM - Google, VADLO).
Life in Research Cartoons
VADLO website also displays cartoons that generally touch upon the lives of researchers. The cartoon themes center upon Postdoc life, journal publications, research organisms, organizations and clinical topics.
References
- ^ Search engine Vadlo caters to life sciences
- ^ The Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008
- ^ Medicine PowerPoint: Focus on Vadlo
External links
Categories: Internet search engines This category is for general search engines that search for information on the Internet. For more specific search engines, see other subcategories of Category:Searching | Bioinformatics Bioinformatics and Computational biology are interdisciplinary fields of research, development and application of algorithms, computational and statistical methods for management and analysis of biological data, and for solving basic biological problems | Biological databases | Medical websites | Domain specific search engines | Biological techniques and tools | Biology websites | Academia Academia is a general term for the whole of higher education and research. The word comes from the Greek referring to the larger body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning | Medical informatics Categories: Medicine | Health care informatics | Medical research | Medical law
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