LitSieve: An integrated literature search and triage tool for biocuration

Biomedical databases are an important part of the scientific infrastructure for organising and synergising research outputs. Many of these databases abstract content from the rapidly expanding scientific literature. Therefore, database curators require effective literature search methods in order to capture research relevant to their domain. This article describes LitSieve, a literature search tool with filtering based on text mined annotations, and flexible article organisation features. It allows users to define filters based on biomedical entities like genes, diseases and species to include or exclude particular articles within their results. By combining a search query with a filter, curators are able to identify articles relevant to the database which they are curating. LitSieve uses APIs provided by Europe PMC, from which abstracts, article full text and text mined annotations are drawn. LitSieve is available at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/litsieve/