<p>Answer from @devon-ryan, converted from comment:</p>
<p>They meant the nucleotide database.</p>

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2021-12-02T00:39:39.217Z
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gringer
<p>I've been assigned a task to fetch sequence records from &quot;<strong>pubmed</strong>&quot; database:</p>
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<p>fetch 30 record of type &quot;fasta&quot; from (pubmed database, with term hemoglobin AND alpha) as a sequence records</p>
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<p>It doesn't make any sense to me!</p>
<p>I know the PubMed database is for publications and citations, but how can I retrieve those records from it? is that even possible?</p>
<p>I tried to search for the IDs with a given term in it and then retrieve the records from another database (like &quot;<strong>nuccore</strong>&quot;), but I don't know if this is right.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>

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2022-01-05T06:27:37.030Z
The PubMed database will not recover any sequence data - that's a database of publications. I think the question was Genbank
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BioPython - Retrieve sequence records from pubmed database
# BioPython - Retrieve sequence records from pubmed database

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-01)

I've been assigned a task to fetch sequence records from "**pubmed**" database:

> fetch 30 record of type "fasta" from (pubmed database, with term hemoglobin AND alpha) as a sequence records

It doesn't make any sense to me!

I know the PubMed database is for publications and citations, but how can I retrieve those records from it? is that even possible?

I tried to search for the IDs with a given term in it and then retrieve the records from another database (like "**nuccore**"), but I don't know if this is right.

Any ideas?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The PubMed database will not recover any sequence data - that's a database of publications. I think the question was Genbank  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-12-02. Score: 1

Answer from @devon-ryan, converted from comment:

They meant the nucleotide database.


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