| EU Directive 86/609/EEC for the protection of laboratory animals obliges scientists to consider whether a planned animal experiment can be replaced, reduced or refined (3Rs principle). To meet this regulatory obligation, scientists must consult the relevant scientific literature prior to any experimental study using laboratory animals. More than 50 million potentially 3Rs relevant documents are spread over the World Wide Web, biomedical literature and patent databases. In April 2008, the beta version of Go3R ("www.Go3R.org":http://www.Go3R.org), the first knowledge-based semantic search engine for alternative methods to animal experiments, was released. Go3R is free of charge and enables scientists and regulatory authorities involved in... |
