The first microbial supertree from figure-mining thousands of papers
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 15:52
in Psychology & Sociology
Recent reports reveal there are more than 114,000,000 published academic papers. Finding ways to efficiently summarize across published knowledge is an increasingly pressing issue. Seeking to address the problem through their PLUTo workflow, scientists perform the world's first attempt at automated phylogenetic supertree construction using data exclusively extracted by machines from published figure images.