PubMed / NCBI E-utilities
Search and retrieve biomedical literature, sequences, genes, and other records from NCBI's 38 Entrez databases including PubMed (36M+ citations), PMC, Gene, Nucleotide, and Protein.
Three ways to use PubMed / NCBI E-utilities
Chat with Geni
Ask Geni to pull data, take actions, or answer questions using this integration in a conversation.
Build a workflow
Create automated workflows that trigger on events, run on a schedule, or chain multiple tools together.
Power an app
Use this integration as a data source or action layer behind a dashboard, form, or internal tool.
Supported tools
Actions your AI agents can perform with PubMed / NCBI E-utilities.
Fetch Full Records (EFetch)
Download full formatted records — PubMed abstracts in XML or MEDLINE text, FASTA/GenBank sequences, etc. — for a list of UIDs.
Find Related or Linked Records (ELink)
Find records linked to a set of UIDs — related articles, gene-to-protein, PubMed-to-PMC full text, citations, outbound LinkOut URLs.
Get Database Info (EInfo)
List all Entrez databases, or return statistics, last-update date, indexed search fields, and link names for one database.
Get Document Summaries (ESummary)
Return brief document summaries (DocSums) for a list of UIDs — title, authors, journal, dates, identifiers — without fetching the full record.
Global Search Across Databases (EGQuery)
Run a single Entrez query against every NCBI database at once and return per-database result counts.
Look Up PMIDs by Citation (ECitMatch)
Resolve one or more bibliographic citation strings (journal, year, volume, page, author) to PubMed PMIDs in a single call.
Get started automating PubMed / NCBI E-utilities
Ready-to-use workflows
Prompts using PubMed / NCBI E-utilities
Weekly journal club prep in Notion and Slack
Every Monday at 7am, get 2 to 3 new PubMed papers picked, written up in Notion with discussion questions, and put to a Slack vote for this week's meeting.
Weekly PubMed research digest to a Slack channel
Every Monday at 8am, get a curated Slack digest of last week's most clinically significant new papers on the topics your team tracks.
Twice-weekly PubMed paper tracker in Google Sheets
Run your saved PubMed searches on a schedule and append any new papers to a Google Sheet, so your literature tracker stays current without manual work.
Enrich new HubSpot contacts with their PubMed research profile
When a new contact lands in HubSpot, Geni searches PubMed for their publications and attaches a research profile note to the record.
Daily PubMed prep brief for tomorrow's external meetings
Each weekday at 6pm, get one email with a PubMed-grounded prep brief on every external attendee you're meeting tomorrow, citations and talking points included.
