| name | pubmed-database |
| description | Direct PubMed and NCBI E-utilities search workflows for biomedical literature, MeSH queries, PMID lookup, citation retrieval, and API-backed literature monitoring. |
| metadata | {"origin":"community"} |
PubMed Database
Use this skill when a task needs biomedical literature from PubMed rather than
general web search.
When to Use
- Searching MEDLINE or life-sciences literature.
- Building PubMed queries with MeSH terms, field tags, dates, or article types.
- Looking up PMIDs, abstracts, publication metadata, or related citations.
- Running systematic-review search passes that need repeatable search strings.
- Using NCBI E-utilities directly from Python, shell, or another HTTP client.
Query Construction
Start with the research question, split it into concepts, then combine concepts
with Boolean operators.
concept_1 AND concept_2 AND filter
synonym_a OR synonym_b
NOT exclusion_term
Useful PubMed field tags:
[ti]: title
[ab]: abstract
[tiab]: title or abstract
[au]: author
[ta]: journal title abbreviation
[mh]: MeSH term
[majr]: major MeSH topic
[pt]: publication type
[dp]: date of publication
[la]: language
Examples: