Commercial
QUOSA´s solutions for corporate scientific researchers save time in every day literature search, extract hard to find facts from full-articles, and can share annotated results among colleagues. Some sample cases (all using the Advanced Tools in the Professional or Platinum versions):
Use Case 1: Mapping a metabolic pathway
The problem: to find kinetic parameters for 8 proteins.
Context: this major pharmaco had tried & failed to find parameters in the bibliographic databases — standard databases do not cover full-text
With QUOSA:the company found all parameters in 3-days using full-article retrieval & search in full-text
ROI: the company avoided putting "a team of 24 in the lab for a year to experimentally replicate", at a cost of > $3 million
Use Case 2: Profiling transcription factors
The problem: to profile transcription factor families based on published literature.
Context: the company profiled the first family. It took the pharmco team 5 months to manually review 40,000 full-text articles. They often needed information present only in full-text articles.
With QUOSA: the pharmaco team profiled the second family of similar size, processing ~40,000 articles in just 2 weeks.
ROI: the company avoided putting "a team of 7+ on the project for 5 months", at a cost of > $.5 million
Use Case 3: Group curation
QUOSA Virtual Library provides the ideal solution for first preparing and then providing shared access to suitably annotated bodies of articles that represent received knowledge in specific research areas.
Expert literature search specialists familiar with a field can use QUOSA´s powerful article retrieval and advanced search tools to fetch, pre-filter, and then review key articles in the field. These can be annotated (e.g. for standardized categorization) and published to a shared folder for viewing or further comment.
Much of this process can be automated, including updating lists of pre-filtered articles based on more or less complex initial search criteria or similarly tailored post-retrieval search expressions for use on the full articles.
