Within
Normal Limits
of
Reason

"Chance is the very guide of life"

"In practical medicine the facts are far too few for them to enter into the calculus of probabilities... in applied medicine we are always concerned with the individual" -- S. D. Poisson

October 30, 2005

PubMed Assistant (PuMA), the PubMed front-end of your dreams!

What I like the most about this program:

  1. Small and fast to load
  2. Ability to save complex searches and their results
  3. Breaks down complex query strings hierarchically and visually
  4. Displays Outlook-style the list of results, the abstracts, and the MeSH terms

My only gripe, in my limited experience with it, is the sometimes-awkward arrangement of the UI. Also a few keyboard shortcuts would be nice. Oh yes and in this Web 2.0 era, perhaps a central site of storage of my search results. (hint hint, Google)



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