NCBI Resource Locator

What is this thing?

The NCBI Resource Locator provides stable, uniform addressing for NCBI content, making it easy to link to individual records. Some NCBI resources also provide services (like search) through these URLs.
How does it work?

Each URL has the form

http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov///

Where:

* is an NCBI resource (e.g., pubmed, gene, nucleotide, etc.)
* is the action to perform (e.g., search, get, etc.). If is missing, the default verb "get" is used.
* is data used by the action to perform the request

Some examples:

* http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12345

Show the PubMed record with pmid 12345
* http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/search/cancer

Search PubMed for "cancer"
* http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/search/human+p53

Search PubMed for "human p53"
* http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/homologene/search/dystrophin

Search Homologene for "dystrophin"


Reference http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/