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Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on November 15, 2006
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkl781
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System—a one-stop gateway to online bioinformatics databases and software tools

Yi-Bu Chen*, Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Phillip Bergen, Cynthia Gadd1 and Nancy Tannery

Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh 200 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA 1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University 2209 Garland Avenue, Nashville, TN 37232-8340, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 412 383 6887; Fax: +1 412 648 8819; Email: yic18{at}pitt.edu

Received August 14, 2006. Revised September 13, 2006. Accepted October 1, 2006.

To bridge the gap between the rising information needs of biological and medical researchers and the rapidly growing number of online bioinformatics resources, we have created the Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection (OBRC) at the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of Pittsburgh. The OBRC, containing 1542 major online bioinformatics databases and software tools, was constructed using the HSLS content management system built on the Zope® Web application server. To enhance the output of search results, we further implemented the Vivísimo Clustering Engine®, which automatically organizes the search results into categories created dynamically based on the textual information of the retrieved records. As the largest online collection of its kind and the only one with advanced search results clustering, OBRC is aimed at becoming a one-stop guided information gateway to the major bioinformatics databases and software tools on the Web. OBRC is available at the University of Pittsburgh's HSLS Web site (http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/genetics/obrc).

The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors


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