alterlab-biorxiv

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Search bioRxiv preprints and fetch metadata fast.

AuthorAlterLab-IEU
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Finding and organizing relevant life sciences preprints is time-consuming when done manually. This skill provides a fast programmatic way to search bioRxiv by keywords, authors, dates, and categories and retrieve structured metadata for review and citation.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Keyword, date-range, and author searches against bioRxiv to retrieve metadata such as doi, title, authors, date, category, and abstract.
  • PDF retrieval: download full-text PDFs for selected papers and offline analysis.
  • Use Case: streamline literature reviews, monitor author outputs, and track research trends over time.

Quick Start

Run the bioRxiv search tool to fetch papers matching your keywords and export results to a JSON file.

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Name: alterlab-biorxiv
Download link: https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills/archive/main.zip#alterlab-biorxiv

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