Nature Publishing Group Contracts Molecular Connections for Semantic Tagging of Archives

Bangalore, India, February 26, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Nature Publishing Group (NPG) - publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online has chosen Molecular Connections(P)Ltd, (http://www.molecularconnections.com/publishing) a Bangalore based company to carry out ontology enhancements for its key subject terms and semantic tagging for its back files(Archives).

Semantic tagging is increasingly being used by several publishers to accurately annotate their content and also to enable more intuitive searches over their literature databases. Molecular Connections has capability to carry out semantic tagging using automatic, manual and semi-automatic (hybrid) approaches.

Ontologies provide the framework in semantic tagging to enable better classification of data, discovery based searches and semantic searches. Molecular connections has an experienced team, which carries out customization of ontology based on needs of the publishers and enhances existing ontology frameworks. The team is uniquely qualified to maintain & develop ontologies in the various biomedical, chemistry and business analytics areas.

About Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.

Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes a range of Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. Online, nature.com provides over 6 million visitors per month with access to NPG publications and online databases and services, including news and comment from Nature, Naturejobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education's Scitable.com.

Scientific American is at the heart of NPG's consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. Founded in 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media. Together with scientificamerican.com and 14 local language editions around the world it reaches over 5 million consumers and scientists. Other titles include Scientific American Mind and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany.

Throughout all its businesses NPG is dedicated to serving the scientific and medical communities and the wider scientifically interested general public. Part of Macmillan Publishers Limited, NPG is a global company with principal offices in London, New York and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide including Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Delhi, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich, Heidelberg, Basingstoke, Melbourne, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul and Washington DC. For more information, please go to www.nature.com.

About Molecular Connections:

Molecular Connections Private Limited is a pioneering In silico discovery services company with proven expertise in Informatics, Ontologies development, semantic enrichment, deep indexing and content analytics. Its scientific team comprises experts from life sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics and software development. Molecular Connections now offers end-to-end services to publishers and content providers. These solutions aim at enhancing the value of existing content of the Publisher or Content Provider and enable them to act as a knowledge discovery platform. For more information, please go to http://www.molecularconnections.com/publishing/

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