Frontier IP Group PLC’s (LON:FIPP) portfolio firm Elute Intelligence, in which it holds a 43% stake, has launched a free online coronavirus document reader to support scientists researching the disease.
The intellectual property (IP) investor said the reader, which uses Elute’s advanced software tools to search large and complex databases, will allow researchers to search for articles mentioning terms related to the outbreak.
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Elute's artificial intelligence searches, compares and analyses documents to identify similarities between them by mimicking the way people read. Researchers can also create their own documents defining their interests to enter into the reader and refine its searches.
Elute is also in discussions with a number of partners to support and publicise the document reader, Frontier IP said.
"The [coronavirus] Document Reader demonstrates just some of Elute's ability to rapidly identify relevant information in unstructured datasets. It is great to see the team deploy this capability in such a short space of time", Frontier IP’s chief commercialisation officer Matthew White said in a statement.
Shares in Frontier IP were 0.6% higher at 54.8p in early trading on Monday.