iHOP - Information Hyperlinked over Proteins

The World Wide Web has changed the way we access information; we prefer to search Google and to follow hyperlinks, instead of reaching for a reference book. Surfing the internet is possible because the interconnection of related content makes it intuitive and close to the associative organisation of human memory. Until recently, however, navigation of the biomedical literature lagged far behind the possibilities presented by the internet. iHOP is the first system that aims to make scientific literature as navigable as the internet.
iHOP is a powerful mimic of biological models and hypotheses with genes and proteins serving as the basic units of information. iHOP provides this network of genes and proteins as a natural way of accessing the more than ten million abstracts in PubMed.