How to use sarscov2web
The sarscov2web functionality pipeline begins at the homepage where a list of 22 annotation/entity types is provided.(Right click on the image below and select "view image" for a larger view)
It is important to emphasis at this point that the number of mentions(count column) is not equal to the number of articles that have mentioned the term. For example, the total count for the term "Communicable Diseases" is 565,596(see image below). On the other hand, the number of articles that have mentioned the term "Communicable Diseases" at least once total to 53,883. So don't worry. Nothing is broken.
The user can find out more about a concept or term by clicking on the "about this term" link in the term details column. This will lead the user to an external database e.g., Ontobee or CHEBI where the term is curated.
By clicking on the term iteself, the user is led to a page with a list of all publications that mention the selected term.
The user can also choose to browse the terms by alphabet as shown below:
By selecting letter "A" the system provides a list of terms ordered by letter "A".
Finally, the sarscov2web pipeline ends with the articles themselves. By clicking on the term, the user is led to a page that lists references to all articles that have mentioned the selected term atleast once. The total number of articles is different from the total number of times the term has been mentioned in the whole corpora.
Here is another example to underline this point. The term "Asthma" has been mentioned 39,161 times( see image above) in the whole body of literature contained in the sarscov2web database but has actually been mentioned by 4,897 articles.(see image below)