Medical info - collecting and curation in the internet era

Never has there been a larger stream of info available for humankind. Getting access to info is not the problem anymore, rather the selection, digestion and prioritizing of info is the key skills needed in modern information overload.

Notably, PubMed alone has now grown to include over 22 million references!

On this week's cover, the Science Translational Medicine new "Collections icons" are shown as if they were apps on a smart phone, linking users to the information they seek. Editor-selected highlights from the journal are grouped by subject to form more than 50 collections on topics such as cancer, biomarkers, vaccines, partnerships, and bioengineering, pluss many more; go see the web @  SciTM Collections.

[CREDIT: C. BICKEL/SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE]