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Elsevieri?1/2s grand challenge down to the 10 best tools.(Brief article)

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Elsevier's grand challenge down to the 10 best tools

Healthcare and scientific publisher Elsevier has announced 10 semi-finalists in its grand challenge to the scientific community to come up with innovative tools for life science information in online text databases.

The semi-finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from more than 70 entries which offered a wide range of approaches, including semantics, visualisation, protocols, social networks and citations.

Noelle Gracy, genetics and cell biology publisher and the grand challenge co-organiser, said: "The semi-finalists will be given access to more than half a million life science articles, including their images and supplementary files, to build their tool.

"Access to such a large and diverse body of work will give them the opportunity to scale up their ideas and really test them to see if they can make something that will change the way life scientists read, write, visualise A- even think about A- ...

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