Harvard:Biophysics 101/2007/Notebook:Resmi Charalel/2007-4-5

OMIM to Review Articles in Pubmed

• The following is the code to return a list of review references for the disease returned through Xiaodi's code.

<\pre> from Bio import PubMed from Bio import Medline import string

disease = a.name

search_term = "Review[ptyp] "+disease

1. print search_term

review_ids = PubMed.search_for(search_term)

rec_parser = Medline.RecordParser() medline_dict = PubMed.Dictionary(parser = rec_parser)

count = 1

for did in review_ids[0:5]:

   cur_record = medline_dict[did]
   print '\n', count, ')  ', string.rstrip(cur_record.title), cur_record.authors, string.strip(cur_record.source)
   count=count+1