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DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY :
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PICTURES: ARCHIVES AND DATABASES :
MEDICAL IMAGES RESOURCES:
NIH Introduces Images, A Database Of Images In Biomedical Literature

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:37:46 -0400
From: "NIH OLIB (NIH/OD)" <ol...@od.nih.gov>
To: NIHP...@list.nih.gov
Subject: NIH Introduces Images,
A Database Of Images In Biomedical Literature

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 28, 2010

CONTACT:

Kathleen Cravedi, National Library of Medicine,

301-496-6308

e-mail:

Kathleen...@nih.gov

NIH INTRODUCES IMAGES, A DATABASE OF IMAGES IN BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE

More than 2.5 million images and figures from medical and life sciences
journals are now available through Images, a new resource for finding
images in biomedical literature. The database was developed and will be
maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a
division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National
Institutes of Health. Images is available at

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/images

Images is expected to have a wide range of uses for a variety of user
groups. These include the clinician looking for the visual representation
of a disease or condition, the researcher searching for studies with
certain types of analyses, the student seeking diagrams that elucidate
complex processes such as DNA replication, the professional or educator
looking for an image for a presentation, and the patient wanting to better
understand his disease.

"Rapid and easy access to images in the biomedical literature should help
scientists and others more quickly identify content of interest," said
NCBI Director David Lipman, M.D. "We believe that the new database will be
useful for the discovery process, as well as for educational and
professional purposes."

The initial content of Images reflects images and figures contained in
NCBI's PubMed Central full-text digital archive of biomedical and life
sciences journal literature, located at

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

Images content may be expanded in the future to include other NCBI
full-text resources, such as NCBI's Bookshelf database of biomedical books
and reports, at

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books

The Images database enables users to search images based on keywords and a
variety of other parameters, such as author and publication date. Images
and data can be easily saved to users' collections and shared with others
through the use of My NCBI, a feature that allows users of NCBI resources
to customize their search and display preferences, save and share
searches, build bibliographies, and perform a variety of other functions.

NCBI creates public databases in molecular biology, conducts research in
computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing molecular and
genomic data, and disseminates biomedical information, all for the better
understanding of processes affecting human health and disease. NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

is a division of the National Library of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov

the world's largest library of the health sciences.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research
Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal
agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational
medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures
for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its
programs, visit

http://www.nih.gov

This NIH News Release is available online at:

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2010/nlm-28.htm

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Sample Search in the database:

Search Term:

Vision

Results: 1 to 20 of 11472

Content Sample of the Search Results

11472

1.Figure 1. NeXML fragments demonstrating embedded Phenex annotations.
From: Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity.

A. A taxon. B. A character and character state.

James P. Balhoff, et al. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10500.
CitationFull text

2.Figure 2. Correspondence between Entity-Quality statements and
evolutionary characters. From: Phenex: Ontological Annotation of
Phenotypic Diversity.

A. Comparison of the structure of phenotypic descriptions using
character-character state vs. Entity-Quality (?=? Phenotype) syntaxes. B.
The defined relationship between an attribute quality type (shape) and a
value quality type (triangular) within the Phenotype and Trait Ontology
(PATO).

James P. Balhoff, et al. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10500.
CitationFull text

3.Figure 3. Phenex screenshot of window configured with panels for
browsing and searching of ontology terms and relationships. From: Phenex:
Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity.

Note that users can configure the position and size of each panel on the
fly. See text for interface details of each panel; the window shows data
from a publication [31] curated by the Phenoscape project.

James P. Balhoff, et al. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10500.
CitationFull text

4.Figure 4. Phenex screenshot of window configured with panels for editing
of taxon lists, voucher specimens, and publication information. From:
Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity.

James P. Balhoff, et al. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10500.
CitationFull text

5.Figure 5. Phenex screenshot of window configured with panels for editing
of character and character states data, phenotypes (i.e. EQ statements),
and character-by-taxon matrix. From: Phenex: Ontological Annotation of
Phenotypic Diversity.

James P. Balhoff, et al. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10500.
CitationFull text

6.Figure 6. An example of lexigraphically dissimilar phenotype
descriptions from two publications [32], [33] that are semantically
similar in that they pertain to the same anatomical structure. From:
Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity.

The dorsal arrector and the posterior pectoral-spine serrae are both parts
of the pectoral fin, which is immediately apparent to both humans and
computers from the structure of the anatomy ontology. Some of the data
relationships shown, such as PHENOSCAPE:exhibits and those from CDAO
(Comparative Data Analysis Ont...

James P. Balhoff, et al. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10500.
CitationFull text

7.Figure 1. Segregation in a cross between strains carrying a transposed
segment. From: Systematic Identification of Balanced Transposition
Polymorphisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

In this example, two haploid parental strains harbor a particular genomic
region (black) on different chromosomes. Crossing the parents leads to a
diploid that contains two copies of the transposed segment. Sporulation
leads to either a tetratype (TT) pattern (one duplication and one
deletion); a no...