BiomedExperts.com - Your Scientific Matchpoint

“Bringing the right researches together and allowing them to grow their professional network is the ultimate goal of BiomedExperts (BME) - the first literature-based social networking platform, Collexis is providing BME free of charge for all researchers around the globe in an effort to increase collaborative biomedical research for the collective good”.

BiomedExperts.com is a great idea, especially for large research projects that need to have several study-groups under different conditions for them to meet and join efforts, and also a way to establish solid networks between the most authoritative experts in biomedical sciences from across the world. This aspect of bonding is always hard for third-world scientists, who frequently find it hard to attend reunions and symposiums around the world on a regular basis.

BiomedExperts.com indicates it is the first literature-based social networking platform, but there seems to be no literature-in-itself resources available from the site. As per can be read in the site’s FAQs there is a project to develop a paper and preliminary research results exchange area, where work-in-progress can be seen linked to members’ profiles, but since most of scientific research projects are funded by institutions or pharmaceutical industries that hold the copyright for that material, it seems unlikely that it will effectively work. Will they beat the odds? Will they develop an alternative way to cope with the need for updated research abstracts?