Archive for December, 2008

December Updates

Supporting our mission to make the world’s life sciences information universally accessible, we have recently made a number of significant enhancements to the NextBio solution. Below is a quick summary of enhancements and the improvements made to our search framework.

  • Enterprise users can now access NextBio seamlessly from within their corporate intranet
  • The Study Inspector and Data Import have been redesigned to be more intuitive.
  • NextBio Community capabilities now support the creation of “projects” and discussion boards.

We realize that efficient literature search is an important component of good science. With years of literature experience, our scientific-computing team set out to optimize literature search in NextBio. As a result of their efforts, we have extended our literature search with the following enhancements:

  • Our text-analysis algorithm has been enhanced to return the most relevant and highly targeted results to your literature or clinical trials queries.
  • When searching for literature within NextBio, you now have the ability to filter the tag cloud by affiliation. This provides one more parameter with which to sort your search results and gives you a quick, easy way to understand the relative contributions of institutions in a given field.
  • Last but not least, we have integrated all freely available full-text articles, allowing you to search the full text rather than just the abstract. We also provide convenient links to all full-text articles integrated into NextBio.

With the enhancements listed above, our team is confident that our literature search is now better than other offerings available on the market (i.e. PubMed, Google Scholar). Let us know what you think about these latest enhancements.

The NextBio iPhone App

Did you know you could use NextBio on your iPhone? The NextBio iPhone app was launched on the iPhone app store on October 22nd, and it is listed in the Medical Applications category. The response has been tremendous – last week alone we had over 2,000 downloads!

Imagine how useful it would be if you could quickly find and read abstracts while talking with colleagues after a seminar. What if you could easily look up correlations between genes while you are at a poster session. NextBio searches on the iPhone make all of this quick and easy. You can find the information you want without breaking the flow of a conversation or your train of thought. The numbers show that many people understand how valuable it is to have the power of NextBio in your pocket with you wherever you go.

If you are one of the thousands of people already using NextBio on your iPhone, we would love your feedback. Please give us your comments here to tell us what you like about the application and what features you would like to see added. We are very excited about the NextBio iPhone app and are working hard to make it even better.

If you haven’t downloaded the NextBio iPhone app yet, click here to be taken to the iPhone app store and download NextBio for free.