[Bioperl-l] PubMed records (was: MeSH terms)

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Sun Oct 25 11:12:53 UTC 2009


On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Robert Bradbury
<robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>  <alsaplayer-devel at lists.tartarus.org>
> I'm not sure if this is related to the MeSH question question or not, but
> I've googled the documentation several times and never managed to find
> "robust" examples for how to manipulate PubMed records.
>
> It would seem that there ought to be code lying around which does:
>  Given Genbank ID,
>     Fetch all Pubmed records from that ID
>         Fetch all related records (via NCBI's "related" record IDs)

Isn't this exactly what the NCBI's ELink is for?

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/elink_help.html
http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/entrezlinks.html

You'd need to work out which of the Entrez databases you are
starting from (probably protein or genome), and then the relevant
ELink command (maybe genome_pubmed, or protein_pubmed,
protein_pubmed or protein_pubmed_weighted look possible).
Then for related pubmed articles, the ELink command is just
pubmed_pubmed.

Peter




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