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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

May 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

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Mapping connections between research topics and publications is a time-consuming task.

NextNet is an AI app that can help you with it. It lets you run visual searches for topics related to life sciences.

It's free and very easy to use:

1. Go to getnextnet[.]com and click on "Get NextNet free."

Sign up for a free account.

2. Select "Explorer" in the left bar and type in your query.

NextNet will generate a graph containing nodes about diseases, drugs, genes, research publications, and so on.

3. The graph is interactive. You can move nodes around.

If you click on a node, it will show you relevant information in a column to the right.

4. You can filter nodes in the graph.

Simply click on the node category you want to filter out and it will be removed from the graph.

5. If you want a list of all nodes in the graph, click on "List results" in the top-left corner of the graph.

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It searches relevant papers, downloads, and organize them in folders with a single prompt.

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Here's how to use Chat Academia for free:

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