Genomics Inform.
2011 Mar;9(1):37-38.
ManBIF: a Program for Mining and Managing Biobank Impact Factor Data
- Affiliations
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- 1Division of Bio-Medical Informatics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongwon-gun 363-951, Korea. kjpark63@gmail.com
- 2Division of Korea BioBank, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Cheongwon-gun 363-951, Korea.
Abstract
- Biobank Impact Factor (BIF), which is a very effective criterion to evaluate the activity of biobanks, can be estimated by the citation information of biobanks from scientific papers. We have developed a program, ManBIF, to investigate the citation information from PDF files in the literature. The program manages a dictionary for expressions to represent biobanks and their resources, mines the citation information by converting PDF files to text files and searching with a dictionary, and produces a statistical report file. It can be used as an important tool by biobanks.