Fun with Ligercat: pubmed word clouds

I have been having enormous fun over the last hour playing with LigerCat.  I was searching for ways to build tag clouds for papers in Pubmed and this came up: LigerCat: Using “MeSH Clouds” from Journal, Article, or Gene Citations to Facilitate the Identification of Relevant Biomedical Literature.   And they have a web site to do searches: LigerCat Literature and Genomics Resource Catalogue

So, of course, like many others, the first thing I did was search for myself:

Eisen JA

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365086.cloud

I then repeated the search, but excluded articles from the SIGS journals, since I have about 100 of those articles that are in essence “Genome sequencing reports”:

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365087.cloud

So this was fun. So then I played around with a variety of other searches

Phylogenomics

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1364022.cloud

Indoor Microbiology

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365091.cloud

University of California[Affiliation] Davis[Affiliation]

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365093.cloud

Haloarchaea

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365095.cloud

Wolbachia

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365097.cloud

GFAJ-1

http://ligercat.ubio.org/articles/1365099.cloud

Some things did not work for some reason(microbiome, metagenomic) but overall this is a useful quick way to get a feel for topics covered in some area.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen