Searching in Europe PMC

Europe PMC is the European mirror of PubMed Central. It has a large collection of full text articles and great search APIs. The human-oriented search API works really well for searching a series of identifiers. Like the ERM identifiers. But typing almost 700 ERM identifiers is not something I like to do often.

So, I created a new Europe PMC Search page listing a few links that allow me to quickly search 100 ERM identifiers:

• ERM00000001-ERM00000100
• ERM00000101-ERM00000200
• ERM00000201-ERM00000300
• ERM00000301-ERM00000400
• ERM00000401-ERM00000500
• ERM00000501-ERM00000600
• ERM00000601-ERM00000700

Now, here too, I did not type them, but I used the GNU/Linux command line utility seq:

seq -f "ERM%08g" -s "%20OR%20" 601 700

BTW, you can also just replace europepmc.org with google.com in those URLs to do the same search in Google.

Unfortunately, these search do not show up as many results as I hoped.