Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for PubMed
Search PubMed, the US National Library of Medicine's index of over 38 million biomedical and life-science articles, no key needed.
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- Read
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- Write
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Actions
What your agents can do in PubMed
Search PubMed, the US National Library of Medicine's index of over 38 million biomedical and life-science articles, no key needed: find articles with PubMed's search syntax, get their citations and abstracts, find similar articles, and turn PMIDs, PMCIDs and DOIs into one another to reach free full text in PubMed Central.
Read 5
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search articles
Searches PubMed and returns the matching PubMed IDs (PMIDs) in esearchresult.idlist, the total in count, and how PubMed read the query in querytranslation.
Get article citations
Returns the citation of up to 50 articles by PMID, in result keyed by PMID.
Get article abstracts
Returns up to 20 articles by PMID as readable plain text in result, each numbered.
Find similar articles
Returns the articles PubMed rates most similar to one article (its "Similar articles" list), best first, as PMIDs with a relevance score in linksets[0].linksetdbs[0].links.
Convert PMIDs, PMCIDs and DOIs
Converts up to 200 article IDs of one kind (PMIDs, PMCIDs like PMC7745181, or DOIs) into the others: each record in records has pmid, pmcid and doi where they exist.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in PubMed but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Nothing to set up: it reads public data, so there is no account or key.
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
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Ask about your PubMed data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search articles, get article citations or get article abstracts in PubMed, then answers with what it found.
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Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent PubMed and Slack: it can search articles in PubMed and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
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Run it as a workflow step
Add "Search articles" to a workflow, and it runs in PubMed the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
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- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
FAQ
PubMed and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to PubMed?
Yes. The PubMed connector has 5 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect PubMed?
Nothing to set up: it reads public data, so there is no account or key.
Can an agent change data in PubMed without asking?
No. Every PubMed action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use PubMed in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every PubMed action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put PubMed to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.