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Enhanced ToxSeek® Meta-Search Engine and Clustering Tool Now Available

Enhanced ToxSeek Meta-Search Engine and Clustering Tool Now Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2007 Mar-Apr;(355):b1.

March 21, 2007 [posted]

[Editor's Note: This Technical Note is a reprint of an announcement published on NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L, an e-mail announcement list available from the NLM Division of Specialized Information Services. To subscribe to this list, please see the NLM-TOX-ENVIRO-HEALTH-L Join, Leave, or Change Options page.]

An updated version of ToxSeek is now available. ToxSeek is an NLM metasearch engine and clustering tool that enables the simultaneous searching of many different toxicology and environmental health information databases and Web sites.

ToxSeek enhancements include:

  • a new spell checker with English and medical dictionaries
  • the automatic inclusion of medical subject headings (MeSH) in the subject clusters
  • the addition of TOXMAP® (environmental health e-maps) and ToxTown (an interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances)
  • refinements to the search strategies of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sites
  • the addition of WHO (World Health Organization).

ToxSeek is available at ToxSeek

Questions and comments can be sent to tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov

For additional environmental health and toxicology resources from NLM, visit //tox.nlm.nih.gov.