NAME

Bio::ExtractNE::GetAbst - Fetch abstracts from PUBMED

USAGE

use Bio::ExtractNE::GetAbst;

get_abstract_by_id($PMID);
get_abstract_by_url($URL);

# the following functions are all the same
get_abstract($PMID);        # return an abstract hash
get_abstract($URL);
get_abstract($ABSTRACT);

new_abstract($PMID);
new_abstract($URL);
new_abstract($ABSTRACT);

abstract($PMID);
abstract($URL);
abstract($ABSTRACT);

This module helps you fetch online abstracts on PUBMED. You can fetch abstracts by PMID, URL, or the abstract body. All the functions above return a hash of a PUBMED abstract.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Yung-chung Lin (a.k.a. xern) <xern@cpan.org> This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself