Get to know PubPharm – with a webinar on April 5, 2022

You may know PubMed, but there is also PubPharm, the freely accessible search engine for pharmacy-specific literature by the German Specialised Information Service Pharmacy.

The Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center has organized a webinar for the ETH Zurich community, allowing you to familiarize yourself with PubPharm and to learn about its latest developments.

A webinar for ETH Zurich
Get to know PubPharm
April 5, 2022, 17:15–18:00
https://webconf.tu-bs.de/ste-p43-tdk
No registration required
Download Flyer (PDF)

Dr. Christina Draheim, Hermann Kroll, and Stefan Wulle from the Specialised Information Service (SIS) Pharmacy (Fachinformationsdienst Pharmazie) will present the drug-centred search engine PubPharm (www.pubpharm.de). About 33 million Medline (PubMed) publications, a further 24 million articles from natural and life science journals, preprints (e.g., from ChemRxiv and bioRxiv), information on clinical studies, subject-specific patents, books (e-books, PhD theses), and conference papers can be searched with a single query. In addition to the text-based search, PubPharm contains a structure search capability, including similarity and substructure search.

As a unique characteristic, PubPharm offers innovative AI-based search services, e.g., interactive drug-disease-networks and suggestion lists of related, context-similar drugs/bioactive compounds and diseases/symptoms.

The latest development is a novel prototype providing a narrative information access (http://www.pubpharm.de/services/prototypes/narratives/). This prototype supports the precise formulation of short narratives consisting of entities (drugs, diseases, targets, etc.) and interactions between them (treatments, inhibitions, etc.). On the one hand, narrative queries result in precise document hits. On the other hand, narrative queries feature placeholders that provide an entity-structured literature overview.