A small semantic search technology software company based in Brigantine, NJ called Weblib is using the cloud to do just that. I had the chance to chat with Weblib's CEO Tamas Doszkocs, a computer scientist and semantic technology expert who recently retired from the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, about their use of the cloud. 

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The library's software development challenge, Show off Your Apps: Innovative Uses of NLM Information, solicited applications that used the library’s data to develop innovative ways for people to obtain and share scientific and medical information. Entrants could create a new app, or submit an existing one. An independent panel of judges chose five winners and five honorable mentions.

Five innovative software applications that help researchers, health professionals, and the general public in their quest for medical and scientific information are the winners of the National Library of Medicine's first software development challenge.

The winning applications can help people learn about anatomy, help researchers find gene information in research literature, and help people sift through large amounts of scientific and medical information.

Winners:

NLMplus
NLMplus is a semantic search and knowledge discovery application that simultaneously searches 59 NLM databases to allow users to discover NLM’s rich content offerings in all areas of biomedicine and health. NLMplus was developed by Weizhong Zhu, Ph.D. and Antonio Zamora, of WebLib LLC in Bethesda.

GLAD4U
iAnatomy
KNALIJ
Quertle

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