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EmBiology

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October 2025 release: NEW Export Sankey Diagrams & Full QueryWe’re excited to introduce powerful new export features designed to enhance your data analysis and sharing experience:Sankey Diagram ExportVisualize...

EmBiology Release Notes

RelationDescriptionExampleExpressionChanges protein abundance by affecting levels of transcript or protein stabilityMDM2 has a negative "Expression" relationship with TP53miRNA EffectInhibitory effect...

What biological relationships are extracted in EmBiology?


	
		
			Concept
			Description
		
	
	
		
			Drugs & chemicals
			Naturally occurring metabolites, small molecules found in cell, drugs (incl. small molecules & biologics)
		
		
			Diseases
			Health conditions...

What biological concepts are included in EmBiology?


Relation information includes the following:

Sentence describing the relationship: e.g., metformin has a negative regulation relationship with diabetes mellitus

One or more text snippets: text from...

What information about biological relationships is provided for each search result?

All relationships for a search term are represented in a ‘Sankey’ visual at the top of the results page. The search term is found in the middle of the visual, with ‘upstream relationships’ to the left...

How do I interpret the visual at the top of the results page?

Type a term into the search bar. After 3 letters are entered, suggestions will appear below the search bar. Either continue typing in the search term or select from one of the suggested terms.


	You can...

How do I search in EmBiology?

Save records (articles or clinical trials) to a list by selecting the articles you wish to save and clicking ‘Save to list’. Access your saved list by clicking ‘Saved lists’ (top right-hand of the screen.



Access...

How do I save my search results?

Export up to 1000 results or select up to 200 individual results for export.

Export files include all bibliographic information, relationship information, text snippets and clinical trail information...

How do I export my search results?

It is possible to apply a simple filter by clicking directly on the visual. For example, to filter by proteins that positively regulate diabetes mellitus, click on the corresponding area on the graph:




The...

How do I refine my search results?

For a quick overview of all EmBiology features and where to find them, view our Quick User Guide.

Contents


	Starting a search
	Interpreting the biology relationship visual
	Understanding your results
	
		Relations...

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