“This is a platform by Africans, for Africans, on African research. It can’t get better than that,” says Joy Owango.

Life Science organizations are finding that it’s simply no longer feasible to provide expert research assistance on demand for all employees, given the decentralized nature of today’s increasingly remote workforces.

To capture the landscape of information needed for a particular R&D project, text mining abstracts and full-text papers both bring benefits.

Capturing key information from a variety of sources and synthesizing into one platform can speed answers to key questions to confront the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are drug information experts who seek out and evaluate evidence of PDDI. Among the challenges for this effort: there is no single repository, nor a defined, validated, standard search strategy.

There are many different consumers of biomedical information, with varying immediate needs and role perspectives. Looking at two of these communities, we can see how information seeking behaviors and targeted resources differ. 

The popularity of PubMed allows for the collection of vast amounts of usage data, and for the intelligent use of that data to improve the search experience.