Yamamoto Yasunori, Fujiwara Toyofumi
Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), 178-4-4 Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-0871, Japan.
Hum Genome Var. 2022 Jun 6;9(1):20. doi: 10.1038/s41439-022-00195-9.
For researchers, writing a paper is an essential task, and it is crucial for them to have an environment to facilitate the paper writing process. In addition, writing in English is more difficult for many non-native English speakers. The Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) provides researchers in the life sciences with several text-mining related services, such as Allie and inMeXes, which were developed to facilitate paper writing. Allie is an abbreviation database that shows researchers expanded forms and several relevant data, such as the papers that contain the abbreviations and their corresponding expanded forms. Since a large amount of abbreviations are coined, remembering their meanings is difficult, even in one's research field. Therefore, Allie helps one lookup abbreviations. inMeXes is an incremental search service for English phrases appearing in PubMed. Researchers can learn English phrases used in life science papers, such as the use of prepositions or widely used phrases that contain a specific word. Allie and inMeXes are updated monthly and yearly, respectively, to provide the latest information.
对于研究人员来说，撰写论文是一项必不可少的任务，拥有一个便于论文写作过程的环境对他们至关重要。此外，对于许多非英语母语的人来说，用英语写作更具难度。生命科学数据库中心（DBCLS）为生命科学领域的研究人员提供了多种与文本挖掘相关的服务，比如Allie和inMeXes，它们的开发目的是便于论文写作。Allie是一个缩写数据库，它向研究人员展示缩写的扩展形式以及一些相关数据，比如包含这些缩写及其相应扩展形式的论文。由于创造了大量的缩写，即使在自己的研究领域内，记住它们的含义也很困难。因此，Allie有助于人们查找缩写。inMeXes是一项针对PubMed中出现的英语短语的增量搜索服务。研究人员可以学习生命科学论文中使用的英语短语，比如介词的用法或包含特定单词的常用短语。Allie和inMeXes分别每月和每年更新一次，以提供最新信息。
