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To: Icebrg who wrote (115)	1/26/2004 5:43:37 PM
From: Icebrg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 269

ARROWSMITH... ...is a search engine that extends the power of a PubMed search. It operates on the output of a conventional search in a way that helps the user see new relationships and form and assess novel scientific hypotheses. It is based on the premise that information developed in one area of research can be of value in another without anyone being aware of the fact. ... The user begins with a question concerning the connection between two entities (for example, a dietary substance,"A", and a disease,"C") for which conventional searching provides no answer. Thus we ask: "can A, or a deficit of A, influence the risk of C?" If A influences some factor, B, not mentioned in the direct A-C literature, where B in turn influences C, the A-C implication cannot be discovered by a conventional search. Without knowing B, a conventional database search cannot determine whether such a B exists, even though the literature on A and the literature on C separately mention B. But insofar as these connections are reflected in title words, ARROWSMITH provides a straightforward solution to this problem." arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu My comment: Amazing