![]() In addition, many resources are seeing a steady decline in their usage (e.g., BLAST, SWISS-PROT), though some are instead seeing rapid growth (e.g., the GO, R). Many resources are only mentioned in the bioinformatics literature, with a relatively small number making it out into general biology, and fewer still into the medical literature. The bioinformatics literature emphasises novel resource development, while database and software usage within biology and medicine is more stable and conservative. We find that trends in resource usage differs between these domains. We provide an audit of the resources contained within the biomedical literature, and a comparison of their relative usage, both over time and between the sub-disciplines of bioinformatics, biology and medicine. Here we use text mining to process the PubMed Central full-text corpus, identifying mentions of databases or software within the scientific literature. ![]() However, while there is an ever expanding choice of bioinformatics resources to use, described within the biomedical literature, little work to date has provided an evaluation of the full range of availability or levels of usage of database and software resources. ![]() Computer-based resources are central to much, if not most, biological and medical research.
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