Meta (academic company)

Meta
Founders Sam Molyneux, Amy Molyneux
Headquarters Toronto, Ontario
Area served
 Academia, Government, Publishing, Industry
Number of employees
 25-35
Website meta.com

Meta is a Canada-based biomedical content curation website which provides material from journals and papers to users. Meta' provides research relevant to users in real-time using machine learning.[1][2][3][4] The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.[1]

History

Meta, formerly Sciencescape Inc.,[5] was founded in 2010 by Sam and Amy Molyneux. Before co-founding Meta, Sam Molyneux studied cancer genomics at the Ontario Cancer Institute at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.[4][6] The service was developed with the intention of curating the millions of articles in the area of academic publishing.[1][2][3][6][7][8]

As of June 2013, the Meta website included 45 million pages.[4]

Features and specifications

Meta includes coverage of the biomedical sciences with real-time updates from PubMed.[1][9][10] The website provides access to over 22 million papers with publication dates as early as the 1800s.[7][8] By sifting through papers and learning from user behavior, the service pinpoints key pieces of research and provides relevant search results.[2] To sort and display significant content, the database uses eigenvalues to assess multiple academic journals. Meta also provides visualizations about a field of research by organizing papers by their date of publication and citation count and then presenting the information on a graph that allows users to quickly identify key papers historical papers.[4]

The research platform uses intelligent algorithms that allow users to sort new publications according to subject matter.[1] Users can subscribe to feeds for areas of research including biology, genes, diseases, genetic disorders, drugs, people, labs & institutes, and journals.[1][6][9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Darrell Etherington (June 16, 2013), Sciencescape Wants To Solve Academic Research Discoverability, Deal With The Noise Problem, TechCrunch, retrieved January 12, 2014
  2. 1 2 3 Sciencescape aims to sift through snowballing science research, Wired.co.uk, retrieved January 12, 2014
  3. 1 2 Candice So (June 13, 2013), Sciencescape cataloguing research papers everywhere, one essay at a time, itbusiness.ca, retrieved January 12, 2014
  4. 1 2 3 4 The Data Visualizers, MaRS Commons Magazine, retrieved January 12, 2014
  5. ↑ "Meta Launches Universal Machine Intelligence Platform to Unite the Fragmented Scientific Information Ecosystem". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
  6. 1 2 3 Mashoka Maimona (June 13, 2013), Tech companies make final pitches at Extreme Startups 2013 demo day, Financial Post, retrieved January 12, 2014
  7. 1 2 Hazman Aziz (June 26, 2013), Sciencescape -- A new kid on the block, Hazman Labs, inc, retrieved January 12, 2014
  8. 1 2 Vaibhav (June 18, 2013), Sciencescape in the Future of Scientific Research, TechnoGiants, retrieved January 12, 2014
  9. 1 2 Under The Hood, Sciencescape.org, retrieved January 12, 2014
  10. ↑ Darrell Etherington (June 13, 2013), Extreme Startups Demo Day Wrap Up: Canadian Startups Make A Strong Showing, TechCrunch, retrieved January 12, 2014

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