User:TaScan/sandbox

ta-Scan semantic web mining engine.

ta-Scan is a system developed by Belgian company, MDCPartners, as a core technology to assist medical research based on publicly available data sources found on the internet.

Background
The internet has become the core vehicle for scientific exchange and knowledge management. Most scientific information is committed to an electronic form and is indexed with many ontologies. For example, PubMed is classified with an indexing system called MeSH.

History
In 2006 MDCPartners initiated a research project developing clinical insights into head and neck cancer and classified a number of public data sources dealing with clinical research and academic activity pertaining to cancer. Form this early identification of public domain websites a bespoke technology named Fetch (focused extraction technologies) were the first steps in developing a fully automated bioinformatics system. In 2007 a visualization tool as a graphic user interface was added.