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General Questions:

1. What is XTractor Premium?

2. Who can use XTractor Premium?

XTractor Premium knowledgebase Questions:

3. Where does XTractor Premium's knowledgebase content come from?

4. What are the annotated entities in XTractor Premium?

5. What is the content beneath the XTractor Premium knowledgebase?

6. What is a relationship in XTractor Premium knowledgebase?

7. What is the approach behind the coverage does XTractor Premium currently support?

8. What does the XTractor Premium weekly update contain?

9. What is the XTractor Premium knowledgebase growth rate?

Application Questions:

10. How do I generate a report for a protein or drug of my interest in XTractor Premium?

11. What is Summary Search?

12. What is Semantic search?

13. What is Concept linking?

14. What is Bibliographic search?

15. Explain watch list?

16. How do I set Email alerts for notification when new entities are added to my watchlist queries?

17. What is a tagcloud?

18. Can I save my results in the watch list?

19. What is autocomplete feature?

20. How are the results ranked in XTractor Premium?

21. How can I save my session in XTractor Premium?

22. How do I save my data in XTractor Premium?

23. What are all the export options that XTractor Premium provides?

24. Does XTractor Premium provide web services?

25. What is entity report?

26. How do I track research organizations and Pharmas using XTractor Premium?

27. How can I visualize the annotated facts in XTractor Premium?

28. How do I get cytoscape?

29. How can I integrate XTractor Premium data with my inhouse database systems?

Installations and Purchase related Questions:

30. How can my organization use XTractor Premium?

31. Will my organization's data and user activity on XTractor Premium be secure?

32. Can I have the XTractor Premium installed in house?

33. Can I get a personal webex on XTractor Premium?




General Questions:

1. What is XTractor Premium?

XTractor Premium the first of its kind - Knowledgebase which provides "manually" annotated facts from PubMed on a weekly basis.

2. Who can use XTractor Premium?

Xtractor Premium can be used by anyone interested in basic academic research on genomics, proteomics, OR drug discovery.

XTractor Premium enables you to make hypothesis and understand your experimental studies on Biomarkers, Clinical trials, Drug interactions, Pathways, Disease mechanisms and much more. You could also Track organizations and their hot areas of research.

XTractor Premium knowledgebase Questions:

3. Where does XTractor Premium's knowledgebase content come from?

XTractor Premium's content includes "manually mined" content from PubMed everyday.

4. What are the annotated entities in XTractor Premium?

We annotate Proteins, Biological processes, Drugs and Diseases for sentences that are captured in the XTractor Premium Knowledgebase. Also the content is outlinked to definite ontologies such as MeSH, GO, UniProt and PubChem for easy refining.

Our curators also classify sentences to 13 definite categories (mentioned below) for easy refining.

5. What is the content beneath the XTractor Premium knowledgebase?

XTractor Premium knowledgebase provides manually mined, expert annotated scientific facts curated by our scientists at Molecular connections.

The knowledgebase currently contains more than 850000 relationships from PubMed and the data from PubMed abstracts get added everyday to XTractor Premium.

6. What is a relationship in XTractor Premium knowledgebase?

To enable easy refining of data content present in the XTractor Premium knowledgebase, the sentences from PubMed abstracts are manually classified into 13- different categories.


These include:

Gene- Gene relationships

Gene- Disease relationships

Knockout/Knockdown studies

Mutation studies

Gene- Drug interactions

Gene- Biological Process

Marker/Biomarker-Disease correlations

Drug- Disease

Pathways related studies

Prognosis

Diagnosis

Clinical Trials

And Therapies

Using these categories the user can easily narrow down the most relevant sentences required for his study.

7. What is the approach behind the coverage does XTractor Premium currently support?

XTractor Premium was basically designed with the protein centric point of view. So we currently handpick and curate the most relevant protein based abstracts. Of the 2500-3000 abstracts published in PubMed everyday, around 1000 abstracts contain a protein in them, out of this set of 1000 abstracts we cover around 600 of the most relevant abstracts which contain relationships this amounts to 66% of the relevant information published everyday by PubMed. So this makes XTractor Premium one of the fastest growing Knowledgebases across the world.

8. What does the XTractor Premium weekly update contain?

XTractor Premium weekly updates provide you with the most latest manually annotated scientific sentences from PubMed. More than 600 sentences are added daily to XTractor Premium. Also we send an email alert to intimate on your favorite data points as and when they get added to XTractor Premium. We provide data from PubMed within 10 days of publication.

9. What is the XTractor Premium knowledgebase growth rate?

As mentioned earlier more than 600 sentences are added to XTractor Premium knowledgebase everyday. So this amounts to a rate of 12000-15000 categorized sentences every month.

Application Features:

10. How do I generate a report for a protein or drug of my interest in XTractor Premium?

Summary Search provides you simple means to generate reports for your single protein or drug of interest. This report can also be exported as pdf or printed.

11. What is Summary Search?

Summary Search is a basic search feature of XTractor Premium - it's a simple search feature, which enables you to generate dynamic reports and graphical view for your query. You can also refine your data using the various options presented here.

12. What is Semantic search?

Semantic Search enables you to query the XTractor Premium knowledgebase using multiple level refining and also has advanced features to mine the scientific content and make hypothesis at ease.

13. What is concept linking?

Concept linking feature enables creating newer relationships using the content present in the XTractor Premium knowledgebase. This feature provides newer analytical means to refine the content.

14. What is Bibliographic search?

XTractor Premium knowledgebase also provides bibliographic details for all the sentences that are stored. You can use this utility to track organizations/pharmas and their major areas of research.

15. Explain watch list?

Watch List feature is an extension of the XTractor Free version. Using the watch list feature, you can add your favorite protein, drug, disease or biological process and track them whenever the latest annotated data for them gets added in the XTractor knowledgebase.

16. How do I set Email alerts for notification when new entities are added to my watch list queries?

Email alert notification gets active by default when you add your terms of interest to the watch list. You will be sent weekly updates on the data when it gets added for each of your entities of interest.

17. What is a tag cloud?

Tag clouds show a list of relevant terms or the most occurring terms (tags) in the XTractor Premium knowledgebase watch list. The bigger/bolder the font the more relevant is the tag is represented in your watch list queries. Tag cloud is available in the "Explore" tab of the watch list.

18. Can I save my results in the watch list?

Watch list provides you with a utility to save your required set of sentences in your defined briefcase. Each briefcase can be named based on your study type.

19. What is auto complete feature?

The auto complete feature enables you to quickly select your required protein, disease, drug or process name. The feature comes with a drop down option for any partial term that you type into the search field. All the searches in XTractor Premium have this utility so as to reduce the time required in searching for the entity.

20. How are the results ranked in XTractor Premium?

The results for a query are ranked in the order of most highly occurring terms.

21. How can I save my session in XTractor Premium?

With Xtractor Premium you can save each of your queries and the results in the semantic search panel. All queries could be reloaded later from the history panel.

Also the homepage reflects all the queries that you have performed on the XTractor Premium knowledgebase.

22. How do I save my data in XTractor Premium?

"My Results" tab in XTractor Premium stores all the results that are saved under different search options.

23. What are all the export options that XTractor Premium provides?

You can export the data as XML, pdf or cytoscape compatible formats.

24. Does XTractor Premium provide web services?

XTractor Premium provides webservices for all the data, so that updations happen at ease.

25. What is entity report?

Each of the entities in XTractor Premium is outlinked to multiple databases, so that you get reports on them automatically.

26. How do I track research organizations and Pharmas using XTractor Premium?

Bibliographic search and summary search enable you to track the organizations and their research interests.

27. How can I visualize the annotated facts in XTractor Premium?

XTractor Premium is integrated with Cytoscape for visualization of relationships; also we have some newer formats of data representation in concept linking and co-occuring entities, which help you to visualize the data.

28. How do I get cytoscape?

Cytoscape is freely available. But if you are an XTractor Premium customer our support team will get this installed at your end. For support write to xtractorpremium@molecularconnections.com

29. How can I integrate XTractor Premium data with my inhouse database systems?

All the entities in XTractor Premium are outlinked to several public domain databases. So using these you can easily integrate the data to your in house systems. Also you can alternatively export the required content alone and study them using your proprietary systems.

Purchase & Installation:

30. How can my organization use XTractor Premium?

Through XTractor Premium your entire internal scientific team can access XTractor Premium. We have multiple sales models to fit your needs, we have both online versions as well as onsite installation models available. Please contact xtractorpremium@molecularconnections.com

31. Will my organization's data and user activity on XTractor Premium Premium be secure?

We follow highest standards of data security for the online version. We are the first informatics company to be recognized under ISO/IEC 27001:2005

32. Can I have the XTractor Premium installed in house?

Yes you can, Please contact xtractorpremium@molecularconnections.com

33. Can I get a personal webex on XTractor Premium?

We do offer a webex very frequently. Click here to book your WebEx slot and our sales team will get back to you.