Chris writes:
The blog post in question concerns conversion of PubMed PMIDs to BibTeX citations. However, a few things have changed since 2010.
Here’s what currently works.
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# pmid2bibtex.rb | |
# convert a PubMed PMID to BibTeX citation format | |
# updated version of http://chrisamiller.com/science/2010/12/13/using-bioruby-to-fetch-citations-from-pubmed/ | |
# works as of 2015-03-18 | |
require 'bio' | |
Bio::NCBI.default_email = "me@me.com" # required for EUtils | |
id = "18265351" | |
pm = Bio::PubMed::efetch(id) # array of MEDLINE-formatted string | |
med = Bio::MEDLINE.new(pm[0]) # MEDLINE object | |
bib = med.reference.format("bibtex") # format is a method of Reference object | |
# "@article{PMID:18265351,\n author = {Brown, T. and Mackey, K. and Du, T.},\n title = {Analysis of RNA by northern | |
# and slot blot hybridization.},\n journal = {Curr Protoc Mol Biol},\n year = {2004},\n volume = {Chapter | |
# 4},\n pages = {Unit 4.9},\n url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18265351},\n}\n" |
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