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Domain knowledge for your AI assistant — workflow patterns, data model concepts, and gotchas for PubMed Central tools.

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Domain knowledge for using PubMed Central biomedical literature tools effectively

PubMed Central

PubMed Central API providing access to millions of biomedical and life sciences research articles, with full-text search and metadata retrieval.

Data Model

  • Articles — search returns PMCIDs; use for detail and related fetches.
  • Related Articles, Citation Network — scoped by PMCID.
  • Author Publications, Journal Articles — by author or journal.

Gotchas

  • Rate limit: 10 requests/minute; NCBI enforces strictly. Wait 6+ seconds between requests.

Use with PubMed Central Bundle

This skill teaches your AI assistant domain knowledge. To actually execute PubMed Central API calls, enable the MCP bundle — the skill and bundle work together.

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Install the skill for domain knowledge, enable the bundle for authenticated tool access

What is a Skill?

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