STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of TargetInsights, an online decision support tool that enables scientists to search, monitor and stay up-to-date with the latest biological insights reported in scientific literature. It provides extensive information coverage and unique data contextualisation, supporting users to identify, prioritise and validate biological targets faster and with less risk.
TargetInsights was specifically designed to overcome information challenges during the discovery process of target identification and validation, where scientists need to support ideation and findings with extensive reviews of the scientific literature. The tool enables full text entity and relationship searching of over 5,000 international biomedical journals covering over 800,000 journal articles and conference abstracts per year. Publications covered by TargetInsights are indexed with approximately 9 million controlled terms within nine taxonomies (genes, proteins and RNA; chemicals and drugs; diseases; biological functions; organ systems; tissue types; cell components; organisms; and cell lines).
TargetInsights seeks to support the workflows of molecular biologists, preclinical pharmacologists, discovery chemists and bioinformaticians, among other user groups. Recognising the need for information immediacy among these users, it takes just 10 days from an article being published to it being indexed and appearing in TargetInsights. To support search accuracy, tools are provided to hone and visualise index term relationship searching.
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