FindZebra's search index is built by crawling curated databases including the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database, the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, and Orphanet.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by FindZebra's founding peer-reviewed paper (Dragusin et al. 2013), the official FindZebra website, and multiple independent tech/medical write-ups. [tier=silver indep_score=0.56 clusters=5 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on FindZebra's own published Table 1 of curated data sources, which most secondary reporting (Smithsonian, MIT Tech Review, iMedicalApps, Network World) draws from directly or indirectly (upstreams: Dragusin et al. 2013 International Journal of Medical Informatics paper (FindZebra founding study), FindZebra official website/FAQ) — 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.imedicalapps.com/2013/03/search-engine-diagnose-rare-medical-diseases-findzebra/ (corroboration)
- https://europepmc.org/api/getPdf?pmcid=PMC3932942 (corroboration)
- https://www.findzebra.com/ (corroboration)
- https://www.networkworld.com/article/744596/software-medical-search-engine-said-to-find-zebras-better-than-google.html (corroboration)