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NAME

       br_pmfetch -- PubMed Client

SYNOPSIS

       br_pmfetch [options...]	["query string"]

       br_pmfetch [--query"query string"]  [other options...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the br_pmfetch.

       br_pmfetch  is  a  command line program to query PubMed. It can take a variety of options (documented below) to restrict your search query,
       which is specified by the query string.

OPTIONS

       -q	    --query
		 Query string for PubMed search.

       -t	    --title
		 Title of the article to search.

       -j	    --journal
		 Journal title to search.

       -v	    --volume
		 Journal volume to search.

       -i	    --issue
		 Journal issue to search.

       -p	    --page
		 First page number of the article to search.

       -a	    --author
		 Author name to search.

       -m	    --mesh
		 MeSH term to search.

       -f	    --format
		 Summary output format. Options are endnote, medline, bibitem, bibtex, report, abstract nature, science, genome_res,  genome_biol,
		 nar, current, trends, cell.

		 --pmidlist
		 Output only a list of PudMed IDs.

       -n	    --retmax
		 Number of articles to retrieve at the maximum.

       -N	    --retstart
		 Starting number of articles to retrieve.

       -s	    --sort
		 Sort method for the summary output. Options are author, journal, pub+date.

		 --reldate
		 Search articles published within recent # of days.

		 --mindate
		 Search articles published after the date YYYY/MM/DD.

		 --maxdate
		 Search articles published before the date YYYY/MM/DD.

		 --help
		 Output help and then exit.

		 --examples
		 Output example usages and then exit.

		 --version
		 Output version number and then exit.

SEE ALSO

       The  following  pages  have  information  on  the  PubMed  search options: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/help/pmhelp.html
       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esearch_help.html

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by David Nusinow dnusinow@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted
       to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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