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Fish Oil, Raynaud's Syndrome, and Undiscovered Public Knowledge

Don R. Swanson, 1986. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.

Swanson argues that specialised literatures can hold unnoticed links, and shows this by connecting fish oil to Raynaud's syndrome through intermediate findings published in separate fields. The paper is the starting point of literature-based discovery.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1353/pbm.1986.0087Checked against the original0

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The inquiry-framework report cites it as an early example of automated discovery from linked literature.

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Swanson, D. R. (1986). Fish Oil, Raynaud's Syndrome, and Undiscovered Public Knowledge. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.1986.0087
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