MedScan^® technology uniquely enables Pathway Studio to access the entire PubMed database and any online resource, full-text journal and proprietary data sets (literature, experimental and electronic notebooks). Information is converted from text to biological relationships and imported into the ResNet Mammalian, Plant or ChemEffect™ knowledge databases.

Primary biological entities represented in the various database include:

• Genes - proteins
• microRNA
• Diseases
• Cell processes
• Functional classes

You can add new relationships and facts automatically by using MedScan daily, weekly or on demand to create a unique and proprietary knowledgebase tailored specifically to your research area.

• Find all interacting molecules for a protein or other biological entity
• Find all networks/pathways for a protein
• Use context and field-specific database searches
• Filter to see only specific types of biological objects to be included in your pathway, such as proteins, complexes, small molecules, cellular processes, etc.
• Filter to see only specific types of biological interactions such as binding interactions, post-translational regulation, expression regulation, enzymatic activity, molecular synthesis, transport, etc.
• Review original literature sources for every relation in a pathway via direct links to PubMed abstract and exact source sentence where each finding is referenced.

• Use integrated MedScan tool to extract biological interactions from scientific text
• Search PubMed, full text journals and internal text sources to build pathways and networks from the extracted facts
• Update pathways using data from recent publications