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Article

Use article commands for literature retrieval by disease, gene, drug, and identifier.

Typical article workflow

  1. search a topic,
  2. choose an identifier,
  3. retrieve default summary,
  4. request full text or annotations only when needed.

Search articles

By gene and disease:

biomcp search article -g BRAF -d melanoma --limit 5

By keyword:

biomcp search article -k "immunotherapy resistance" --limit 5

By date:

biomcp search article -g BRAF --since 2024-01-01 --limit 5

Exclude preprints when supported by source metadata:

biomcp search article -g BRAF --since 2024-01-01 --no-preprints --limit 5

Get an article

Supported IDs include PMID, PMCID, and DOI.

biomcp get article 22663011

Request specific sections

Full text section:

biomcp get article 22663011 fulltext

Annotation section:

biomcp get article 22663011 annotations

Caching behavior

Downloaded content is stored in the BioMCP cache directory. This avoids repeated large payload downloads during iterative workflows.

JSON mode

biomcp --json get article 22663011

Practical tips

  • Start with narrow --limit values.
  • Add a disease term when gene-only search is too broad.
  • Use section requests to avoid oversized responses.