DiscoveryLens builds on Praxeon's Semantic Fingerprinting™ technology.

In addition to all these capabilities, DiscoveryLens can discover new knowledge from literature and connect it with existing knowledge in influence maps. New knowledge is always linked to the supporting literature.

Discovery

DiscoveryLens finds relationships that make connections between the scientific concepts found in the peer-reviewed literature.

• Direct relationships can be based on mechanisms such as biochemical action. For example:
  fumaric acid is a substrate of fumarate hydroxylase
• Indirect relationships can also be discovered even if the mechanism is not known. For example:
  dimethyl fumarate activates antioxidant response elements.

Representation

Each relationship is represented by a scientific statement connecting the related concepts. This statement is written in the natural language of the researcher, and it can be used to fetch and display the evidence that supports the relationship.

Consider the example of:

dimethyl fumarate activates antioxidant response elements.

This relationship is supported by the following statements:

• Dimethyl fumarate is electrophilic
• Electrophilic compounds activate an adaptive response mediated by Nrf2 and Keap1
• Nrf2 activates antioxidant response elements

Influence Maps

Relationships can be connected into an expanding influence map, which is a graph connecting the scientific concepts together. Like their geographical cousins, an influence map provides a navigational path between distant concepts with intervening nodes providing observed connections.