[Biopython] Finding what is the most recent Pubmed ID or list of all valid PMIDs

[Peter]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Renato Alves <rjalves at igc.gulbenkian.pt> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I'm trying to figure out a way to have a more or less up-to-date list of
> Pubmed IDs for validation purposes. This has to be performed on a
> programmatic way.
>
> My first attempt was to look for this in NCBI's FTP. I could find
> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed/deleted_pmids.txt but not information
> about the most recent PMID.
>
> I also tried to use EInfo but the count section under PubMed seems
> either outdated or completely unrelated to the total number of assigned
> PMIDs. Even when adding the total of deleted_pmids + the number from
> EInfo I couldn't get accurate information.
>
> So my question is, does anyone know how to get either a list of all the
> valid PMIDs or simply the most recent PMID?

To try and work out the latest PMID, I'd start by trying a PubMed search
by date, using a recent threshold.

What number of PMIDs are you trying to validate? Would it make
sense to use Entrez to do the validation (in batches)?

Peter