Hi everyone,

I keep hearing about algorithms to search the literature for gene associations. For example, I have a gene list, and I would like to search the literature for gene associations with each of the gene in my list. I could do it manually, but it seems that search algorithms would be more effective. For example, once I fish out a new gene association, I could simply read the respective paper for more details. There is LitVAn from Pe'er's lab, but I can't access it on their website.

I would greatly appreciate if someone could suggest another search algorithm.

Thank you for your time.
I'm not sure which programming language you want to use, but here's a very helpful [general overview][1] of how to programmatically search Entrez resources (such as PubMed) and handle the results from generated queries. If you provide more specifics I can probably help you out further. Comment on this answer and I'll update it accordingly.

 [1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/