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Converting DOI to PMID (Digital Object Identifier to PubMed Identifier) using NCBI Entrez Programming Utilities

A simple workflow for converting a Digital Object Identifier 10.1093/nar/gkl320 into a PubMedID (16845108) using the NCBI eSearch utitlity.

 

NCBI services consume and produce complex data types. In Taverna, inputs (e.g. Database name, DOI, Return type in this example) have to be merged into a single string using the perversely named "Input Splitter". Outputs have to be split using the Output Splitter, which appear when you right click on the service in Taverna.

 

Workflow available from www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hulld/workflows/DOI2PMID.xml and via a simpler RESTian style: eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=Pub...

 

This workflow was created and runs in www.taverna.org.uk/

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Uploaded on April 10, 2007