FindZebra uses the open source information retrieval tool Indri to search its index.
Notes on verification
Confirmed true for 2013 per original peer-reviewed paper and multiple contemporaneous sources, but FindZebra later migrated to Apache Solr/Lucene, so the claim is outdated for the tool's current architecture. [tier=gold indep_score=0.986 clusters=7 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on The 2013 academic paper describing FindZebra's original architecture (upstreams: Dragusin et al. 2013 'FindZebra: a search engine for rare diseases' (Int J Med Inform), MIT Technology Review 2013 article) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- This New Search Engine Helps Doctors Diagnose Rare, Obscure Diseases (seed:anatomy_and_medical_oddities)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/03/18/179360/the-rare-disease-search-engine-that-outperforms-google/ (corroboration)
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/258270 (corroboration)
- https://www.findzebra.com/ (corroboration)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1386505613000166 (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3932942/ (corroboration)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1750-1172-9-S1-O5 (corroboration)
- https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pdig.0000269 (corroboration)