- What is Metab2MeSH?
- Using Metab2MeSH
- How Metab2MeSH is Created
- Metab2MeSH Data Policy
- Citing Metab2MeSH
Overview
Metab2MeSH is part of the NIH's National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI).
Metab2MeSH uses a statistical approach to reliably and automatically annotate biological substances with the concepts defined in MeSH, the National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary for biology and medicine. The Metab2MeSH web application searches biological substances or MeSH terms and displays resulting pairs of substances and MeSH terms that match the search term. The substance / MeSH term pairs displayed are those that are significantly associated in PubMed abstracts and are ordered highest to lowest by significance score.
How MetabMeSH is Created
The NCIBI PubMed database is downloaded from the NLM, parsed and loaded into a relational database. MeSH indexing terms are used as provided by the NLM distribution. The significance of association between substances and MeSH terms are calculated by evaluated using Fisher’s exact test using the R statistics package.
Metab2MeSH is updated monthly.
Metab2MeSH Quick Start Guide
Using Metab2MeSH
- 1. Select whether you'd like to search MeSH terms or substances
- 2. Enter your search term into the search field and click "Submit"
- 3. Click on any MeSH term or substance to search again with that specific term
- 4. Use the history tracker to go back to previous search results
Tips:
- Click the book icon
to lookup the MeSH term in NCBI - Click "download" to download the results into a tab delimited text file
Licensing and Terms of Use
Metab2MeSH is both a web service that integrates data and the application of research and open source software to the problem of supporting that web service. Access to this website is provided free of charge. Permission is granted to use this software and data internally only, so long as no fee is charged, usage of this website is cited in any resulting publications involving results from such use, and so long as the name of the University of Michigan is not used in any advertising or publicity pertaining to such use without specific, written prior authorization. Permission to redistribute this data in any form is specifically not granted.
The Regents of the University of Michigan does not check this data for errors or omissions, and by its nature, the data included herein likely contains errors and omissions. Access and use is provided as is, without representation as to its fitness for any purpose, and without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Regents of the University of Michigan shall not be liable for any damages, including special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, with respect to any claim arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website or data, even if it has been or is hereafter advised of the possibility of such damages.
How to Cite Metab2MeSH
Ade, AS; States, DJ; Wright, ZC; Metab2MeSH [Internet]. Ann Arbor (MI): National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics. 2007 Mar. Available from http://metab2mesh.ncibi.org
Additional Help and Support
For additional Metab2MeSH support and/or any questions regarding Metab2MeSH email ncibi-list@umich.edu
