1. Handling Floods of Literature: BioMedical Document Management Andrew Dolbey Center for Computational Pharmacology University of Colorado, School of Medicine Dec. 7, 2003

2. The challenge: biomedical literature explosion!! A piece of the more general information explosion in biomedicine high-throughput data, analyses MEDLINE volume increasing rapidly 650,000+ new docs per year …and rate is increasing New combinations of subfields and subspecializations

3. Our response: managing the text data Develop tools that can (help) harness the literature explosion search interfaces that combine genes/proteins and categories of interest discover useful connections between documents Current and future directions: better ranking of retrieval results generation of summaries of document collections discovery of emerging trends in collections