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  <Title>BioEx: A Novel User-Interface that Accesses Images from Abstract Sentences</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The rapid growth of full-text electronic publications in bioscience has made it necessary to create information systems that allow biologists to navigate and search efficiently among them. Images are usually important experimental results that are typically reported in full-text bioscience articles. An image is worth a thousand words.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Biologists need to access image data to validate research facts and to formulate or to test novel research hypotheses. Additionally, full-text articles are frequently long and typically incorporate multiple images. For example, we have found an average of 5.2 images per biological article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Biologists need to spend significant amount of time to read the full-text articles in order to access specific images.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Figure 1. BioEx user-interface (as shown in A) is built upon the PubMed user-interface. Images are shown as thumbnails at the bottom of a PubMed abstract. Images include both Figure and Table. When a mouse (as shown as a hand in A) moves to &amp;quot;Fig x&amp;quot;, it shows the associated abstract sentence(s) that link to the original figure that appears in the full-text articles. For example, &amp;quot;Fig 1&amp;quot; links to image B. &amp;quot;Related Text&amp;quot; provides links to other associated texts that correspond to the image besides its image caption.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3">  In order to facilitate biologists' access to images, we designed, evaluated, and implemented a novel user-interface, BioEx, that allows biologists to access images that appear in a full-text article directly from the abstract of the article. In the following, we will describe the BioEx userinterface, evaluation, and the implementation.</Paragraph>
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