bioc-pmc-api
Access PMC Open Access articles in BioC format for text mining
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill bioc-pmc-api --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# BioC API for PMC Open Access ## Overview The BioC API provides full-text articles from PubMed Central (PMC) in the BioC format — a simplified XML/JSON structure designed specifically for biomedical text mining. Unlike the standard PMC OAI service (which returns JATS XML), BioC pre-segments text into passages with offset annotations, making it ideal for NLP pipelines, named entity recognition, re
What does the bioc-pmc-api skill do?
Access PMC Open Access articles in BioC format for text mining
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill bioc-pmc-api --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.