This guide will take approximately 3 minutes to complete.
In this guide you will learn how to search for biomarkers of a disease of interest.
Step 0: Login
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Search for biomarkers of a disease of interest
To explore biomarkers of a disease of interest, use the Intelligent Search on the Causaly home page (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Causaly Discover on the Causaly homepage
Begin your search by typing your question into the Causaly Discover search bar in natural language (Figure 2). “What are the biomarkers of hypertensive disease?” will be used as an example (link).
Figure 2: Directly ask a question in natural language in the Causaly Discover search bar
Click "Search" or hit Enter on your keyboard to run the search, which will direct you to the Causaly Discover results page.
Causaly Discover offers an AI-generated summary, complete with in-line citations for transparency into the results, based on the top 20 articles. You can scroll down to view all the documents retrieved in response to your search query.
In addition, Causaly Discover will prompt you to visit the Bio Graph to review the biomarkers in a dendrogram list and be able to deep dive into their unique relationships with the disease of interest. Click on View analysis to open the Causaly Bio Graph knowledge card (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Causaly Bio Graph card linking your search query to Causaly dendrogram results.
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- If you are used to working with keywords on Intelligent Search and/or would like to review the results directly in the Causaly Biograph, you can select the option to return to your previous Causaly experience and initiate your search there by clicking the “Intelligent Search” option under “Biograph” on top of your Causaly homepage (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Access the previous Causaly interface, by clicking on Biograph and selecting the “Intelligent Search” option.
To ask a follow up question and refine for a subpopulation of interest, such as diabetic patients, or prognostic biomarkers such as biomarkers of progression or survival, use the input box at the bottom right corner of your screen, below the Causaly Biograph card (Figure 5).
Figure 7: The input box at the bottom right corner of your screen to ask follow up questions.
Results will now be updated directly on the window on the right, providing you with a new summary and a new Causaly Bio Graph card.
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- You can further refine this search by using additional filters on the left of your screen. Filters include the publication type, year of publication, article section, data source, journal, and journal rank (SJR). To explore how you can best use the different filters, click here.
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