NCBI > Resource Locator > 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/<noun>/<verb>/<expression>
Where:
- <noun> is an NCBI resource (e.g., pubmed, gene, nucleotide, etc.)
- <verb> is the action to perform (e.g., search, get, etc.). If <verb> is missing, the default verb "get" is used.
- <expression> is data used by the action to perform the request
- 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"