A Concept-Based Search System of Life Science Review Articles in Japanese Using an RDFized MeSH and the Life Science Dictionary

Abstract

With the rapid development of high-throughput experimental equipments such as next generation sequencers, life science researches have progressed quickly. This has made exponential growth of published papers, and therefore made difficult for a researcher to grasp the latest research outcomes even in the field of his/her expertise. Moreover, the almost all of the significant research outcomes have been published in English, and all the more so with researchers whose mother language is Japanese. Here, we propose a search system for a researcher to find a review articles in Japanese of the latest life science research outcomes. Our system uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and the Life Science Dictionary (LSD) to provide a user with a concept-based narrowing down interface. MeSH and LSD are both provided in Resource Description Framework (RDF), and LSD contains relationships between LSD and MeSH terms. We built a dataset of Japanese review articles in RDF that consists of bibliographic data and annotations using the LSD.