Support Articles For Layar

Getting Started Step 1. Click the “Ontologies” subsection under your “Data Catalog” menu, located on the left-hand side of your Layar home page. Step 2. Click the ontology name to see the Ontology View for that ontology, with the terms, synonyms, and related metadata. Step 3. Search andclick on a term to see its references, […]

Identifying a document ID or data source is useful for both search and API calls. Below is a step-by-step guide for identifying both via the Layar interface. Identifying a Document ID 1. Select a document from the Layar data catalog. 2. Click the three-dot menu on the right-hand side of the Layar document view. 3. […]

How to use Vyasa Layar’s automated table extraction feature. Step 1: Click the “View Original” menu item from the Three Dot menu in the upper left hand corner of the Document view. Step 2: Navigate to the page with the table you are interested in extracting. Click and Drag a box to fit around the […]

While Layar can handle keyword and boolean search, we find it helpful to provide an overview of boolean operators to enhance your Layar search experience.  What are Boolean Operators?  If you have ever Googled something, you have already created Boolean search strings. If you use it without realizing it, you can learn a few Boolean […]

Support documentation covering updates, bug fixes, and new software features for Vyasa Layar. Vyasa Layar 2.60.0 September 2022 What’s New Automated Language Detection! Every document indexed with Layar is now run through our language detection model to identify the language used in the text. This prediction is then tagged as an annotation on the document […]

How to Effectively Use Vyasa’s QA Features

How to generate your own Layar API keys within Layar. Step 1. Click the three dot icon located in the top left of the Layar home page. Step 2. Select “Generate API Access Token“. Step 3. Click “Generate Access Keys” to confirm. Step 4. Save your access keys somewhere safe where you can reference them […]

A list of all ontologies currently available off-the-shelf in Vyasa products. Table of Available Ontologies Ontology Acronym Author Version Last Updated Current Procedural Terminology CPT American Medical Association (AMA) 2020AB 01/06/2021 Experimental Factor Ontology EFO EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) 3.39.1 02/24/2022 Foundational Model of Anatomy FMA NIH NLM’s Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) 5.0.0 […]

Understanding how NER concepts facilitate your analyses. NER, or Named Entity Recognition, is a deep learning text analytics subdomain where terms and phrases are identified within unstructured text and classified into categorical (aka entity) types (e.g. proteins, cell line, disease, companies, etc.). We use NER tagging to create NER Concepts, which appear in several areas […]

A quick guide on how to upload your own ontologies into Vyasa Layar for implementation. Table-Based Files (.csv, .xls, etc) Step 1. Add your ontology file to Layar using one of your connectors (or local upload). The ontology file can be any table-based file (for example, .csv, .tsv, .xls, etc are all compatible). The system […]

A walk-through of all steps needed to go from a basic CentOS 7 install to a running Layar system. In this guide we will go from a basic CentOS 7 install to a fully functioning Layar system. This guide is intended as an example installation only and makes configuration decisions that may not be best […]

Currently, Layar utilizes keywords and Boolean search parameters to capture documents. Files can be retrieved if the keywords exist in the title, metadata, or (most impressively) within a section of the document.