PubTator Central (PTC) API
Explored by:
CHEN, JESSICA, DODSON, JACK PATRICK, FLYNN-CARROLL, ALEXANDER OWEN-(Bioinformatics 201, Winter-2022, UCLA)
Description:
PTC is a Web application that gives automatic annotations of biomedical concepts (e.g., mutations, genes, diseases, drugs, diseases) extracted from PMC articles and PubMed abstracts. PTC can be accessed at National Library of Medicine website and instructions and examples for usage can be located at API document site.
Use cases:
- Retrieve all annotations for each PubMed abstract e.g. You want to get biomedical text training data for named-entity recognition tasks where you need the full-text and the corresponding annotations/labels.
- Identify key genes related to a certain disease
- Want to perform a literature review to search for important genes related to breast cancer
- Rank genes by number of publications
- Retrieve abstracts from highest published gene