Bioalma releases API to access novoseek’s data and a building gadget platform

(I-Newswire) February 2, 2010 - Madrid, Spain, February 02, 2010 – Bioalma announced today the release of a novoseek’s API that will allow a customized interaction with the company’s biomedical search engine. Novoseek’s free-of-charge API will enable the user to integrate novoseek-derived information in different data workflows so as to extract key biomedical concept annotations on scientific texts. Based on this API, Bioalma has also developed a gadget platform that will easily help Web developers enrich the content on their pages.

“This API will let the bioinformatitians and web developers integrate novoseek’s information how and where they want it”, says Ramon Alonso-Allende, director of marketing and business development at Bioalma. “In addition, with our new gadget platform anyone can take advantage of novoseek’s technology and easily add contents in their web sites. They can have a list of their own publications or the publications on their favorite author integrated in their blog, it being automatically updated”.

The API is free and at this moment it has restrictions on usage of up to 300 petitions per day. The only request for its use is an API key that should be used both for programming or using of the gadget builder platform.

Novoseek offers a powerful alternative to traditional information retrieval systems such as PubMed, and is aimed at a variety of audiences within the biomedical community, including students, medical doctors, medical librarians and biomedical scientists and researchers. Since its introduction in February 2009, Bioalma has added significant functionality to novoseek, including the ability to search grant award information from entities such as the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), as well as the ability to conduct full-text searches in all Open Access journals housed in PubMed Central.

To view a demo of how to use novoseek API, please visit: http://www.novoseek.com/info/tutorial_video_gadgets.html

Request an API key at http://api.novoseek.com

About Bioalma:
Located in Madrid, Spain, Bioalma is an IT company specialized in the research and development of biomedical software.

Bioalma was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of a bioinformatics group in the National Center of Biotechnology and a privately-held company, as part of the Bionostra group. Bioalma prides itself on an elite team of well-known, internationally-leading scientists as part of its scientific committee and has successfully marketed its technology to different research institutions, universities, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including National Institutes of Health, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Roche and Althea Technologies.

Bioalma is a privately-owned company, part of the Bionostra group. The Bionostra Group is composed of four companies that share the common objective of being leaders in the biotechnology and bioinformatics sectors. Its main activity is scientific research focused on the development of new technologies, products and biotechnology services within the field of human health. Bionostra Group is composed of Bioalma, ChimeraPharma, Bionostra and Microbionta.

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