Medie and Info-pubmed: 2010 update

In the recent decades, high-throughput screening methods were established, bringing forth major breakthroughs in the fields of molecular biology and biomedicine. Since researchers in these fields need to interpret an enormous quantity of data and the publication rates of scientific articles are exploding, demands on text mining technology are growing with each passing year. Medie (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/medie/) and Info-pubmed (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info-pubmed/) were developed as a response to these information needs. Medie is a general-purpose integrated Pubmed search engine and Info-pubmed is a targeted system for finding information about the interactions of key biomedical entities. In this work, the first update of these systems since their introduction, we present multiple extensions of the systems based on recent advances in biomedical text mining.