[Biopython] Fwd: [Utilities-announce] PubMed EUtilities EFetch update

[Peter Cock]

FYI, the NCBI will be updating the XML from PubMed soon.

Biopython's Bio.Entrez module's XML parser should automatically
download the new PubMed DTD file and start using it for you - but
sometimes the NCBI changes do break things.

Peter


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From:  <utilities-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 6:17 PM
Subject: [Utilities-announce] PubMed EUtilities EFetch update
To: NLM/NCBI List utilities-announce <utilities-announce at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>


Dear PubMed EFetch Users,



The PubMed DTD was modified in 2017 to incorporate the attribute
"IndexingMethod" for the element  <MedlineCitation>. Values will now
be applied as appropriate for this attribute in citations indexed for
MEDLINE to provide documentation of the method by which the set of
Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) indexing terms was determined for a
citation.



IndexingMethod values are for computational analysis of MEDLINE XML
and are not searchable in PubMed.



Beginning in September 2018, these values will be added as appropriate
for newly completed MEDLINE citations. For previously completed
citations that were indexed by one of these methods, values will be
added with the 2019 PubMed baseline file produced in December.



For additional details, please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article,
Incorporating Values for Indexing Method in MEDLINE/PubMed XML.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja18/ja18_indexing_method.html



Thank you.


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