eTBLAST

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eTBLAST was a free text-similarity service now defunct. It was initially developed by Alexander Pertsemlidis and Harold “Skip” Garner in 2015 at The . It offered access to the following databases:

eTBLAST searched citation databases[1] and databases containing full-text such as PUBMED. It compared a user’s natural-text query with target databases utilizing a hybrid-search algorithm. The algorithm consisted of a low-sensitivity, weighted, keyword-based first pass followed by a novel second pass based on sentence alignment. eTBLAST later became a web-based service of The Innovation Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.

The text-similarity engine studied duplicate publications and potential plagiarism in biomedical literature. eTBLAST received thousands of random samples of Medline abstracts for a large-scale study. Those with the highest similarity were assessed then entered into an on-line database. The work revealed several trends including an increasing rate of duplication in the biomedical literature, according to prominent scientific journals Bioinformatics,[2],[3] Clinical Chemistry,[4] ,[5] Nature,[6] and Science.[7]

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  1. ^ Lewis, J; Ossowski, S; Hicks, J; Errami, M; Garner, HR (2006). "Text similarity: An alternative way to search MEDLINE". Bioinformatics. 22 (18): 2298–304. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl388. PMID 16926219.
  2. ^ Errami, M; Hicks, JM; Fisher, W; Trusty, D; Wren, JD; Long, TC; Garner, HR (2007). "Deja vu a study of duplicate citations in Medline". Bioinformatics. 24 (2): 243–9. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm574. PMID 18056062.
  3. ^ Loadsman, JA; Garner, HR; Drummond, GB (2008). "Towards the elimination of duplication in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care". Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 36 (5): 643–5. doi:10.1177/0310057X0803600502. PMID 18853580.
  4. ^ George, AC; Long, TC; Garner, HR (2010). "Quaere Verum". Clinical Chemistry. 56 (4): 673–4. doi:10.1373/clinchem.2009.130468. PMID 20093558.
  5. ^ Garner, HR (2011). "Combating unethical publications with plagiarism detection services". Urologic Oncology. 29 (1): 95–9. doi:10.1016/j.urolonc.2010.09.016. PMC 3035174. PMID 21194644.
  6. ^ Errami, M; Garner, H (2008). "A tale of two citations". Nature. 451 (7177): 397–9. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..397E. doi:10.1038/451397a. PMID 18216832. S2CID 4358525.
  7. ^ Long, TC; Errami, M; George, AC; Sun, Z; Garner, HR (2009). "Responding to Possible Plagiarism". Science. 323 (5919): 1293–4. doi:10.1126/science.1167408. PMID 19265004. S2CID 28467385.

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