Table 1 Description of the metadata retrieved for each publication.

From: SMAC, a computational system to link literature, biomedical and expression data

Type of information

Description

PMID

Unique identifier number for publications stored in PubMed

Title

Full title of the publication

Authors

List of authors, separated by comma

Journal

Full name of the journal that published the paper

Date of publication

Date of publication is always reported using the yyyy-mm-dd format

MeSH headings

List of the medical headings associated to the publication

GSE codes

List of the GEO dataset linked to the PMID

Platforms

Experimental platforms used for generating the data

ftp-links

Web link for the direct download of the GEO raw data

Analyses

List of analyses performed by SMAC on each tuple PMID:GSE