REFDB-PUBMED(1)

NAME
refdb-pubmed - retrieves an XML representation of Pubmed (http://pubmed.org) entries by their Pubmed IDs

SYNOPSIS

refdb-pubmed [-d database] [-h] [-m mode] [-t type] [PMID...]

DESCRIPTION

refdb-pubmed retrieves datasets from the Pubmed database using the efetch utility[1]. refdb-pubmed reads Pubmed IDs (PMIDs) either as parameters from the command line, or on stdin. Input data should contain PMIDs separated by non-digits (spaces, tabs, newlines, commas,...). All results are written to stdout.

OPTIONS

-d database
    Specify the Pubmed database to query. Allowed values are pubmed, pmc, journals, or omim. Default is pubmed.

-h
    Displays help and usage screen, then exits.

-m mode
    Specify the retrieval mode. Allowed values are xml, html, text, and asn.1. Default is xml.

-t type
    Select the retrieval type. Allowed values are uilist, abstract, citation, medline, or full. Default is full.

SEE ALSO

RefDB (7), med2ris (1).

RefDB manual (local copy) PREFIX/share/doc/refdb-<version>/refdb-manual/index.html

RefDB manual (web) <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html>

RefDB on the web <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/>

AUTHOR

refdb-pubmed was written by Markus Hoenicka <markus@mhoenicka.de>.

NOTES

1.  efetch utility
    http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/efetchlit_help.html