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LitInspector Release Notes

February 2010: LitInspector Release 1.5

New or enhanced features compared to Release 1.4:

• The number of entries in the pathways database has more than doubled, containing 393 pathway entries now.
• The homonym disambiguation was further improved.

July 2009: LitInspector Release 1.4

New or enhanced features compared to Release 1.3:

• New organisms:
  • Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe

December 2008: LitInspector Release 1.3

New or enhanced features compared to Release 1.2:

• New input option: the user can define which keywords (transcription factor, gene, disease, tissue, pathway, function word) will be highlighted in the output. Per default, transcriprion factors and genes are highlighted.
  This feature is only available in the GenomatixPortal version of LitInspector.
• The references for the signal transduction pathway associations of a gene are displayed in the LitInspector color coded format.
• The option "Get selected abstracts" provides the selected abtracts in LitInspector color coded format in addition to direct PubMed links.

July 2008: LitInspector Release 1.2

New or enhanced features compared to Release 1.1:

• Improved disambiguation for more than 1,000 gene symbols that are simultaneously used in a "non-gene" context in the literature.
• Evaluation of LitInspector example results compared to other text mining software (IHOP, EBIMed, PubGene) available ("LitInspector Quality").

February 2008: LitInspector Release 1.1

New or enhanced features compared to Release 1.0:

• Enhanced performance of free text search.
• Individual abstracts can be selected in the LitInspector results in order to generate a PubMed link to all relevant publications.

November 2007: LitInspector Release 1.0

LitInspector is a new literature search tool for genes, gene functions, gene - gene relations, and signal transduction pathways. LitInspector is available in the GenomatixPortal main menu free of charge for every registered user.

LitInspector features are:

• Input: gene symbols, gene IDs and/or free text
• Output:
  • PubMed abstracts where genes and relevant keywords are highlighted
  • Gene - gene co-citations (only for gene input)
  • Signal transduction pathway associations (only for gene input)