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SIBiLS
SIBiLS provides customizable information retrieval for biological literature through services including biodiversity and literature tools.
About SIBiLS
SIBiLS (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Literature Services) provides information retrieval over biological literature, allowing search of semantically enriched content by keywords and mapped biomedical entities from standardized and legacy vocabularies.
It covers four collections — MEDLINE, PubMedCentral (PMC), Plazi treatments, and PMC supplementary files — updated daily, and offers Fetch, customizable search, and question-answering APIs via REST, along with tools such as Biodiversity PMC, BiotXplorer, Variomes, SynVar, Celltriage and a SPARQL endpoint. Some services support internal SIB curation work, while others are available to life scientists. Fetch requests accept up to 1,000 document IDs, and search requests return up to 10,000 documents.
Key features
- Search MEDLINE, PMC, Plazi treatments, and PMC supplementary files
- Retrieve annotated documents by ID, up to 1,000 per request
- Query enriched content with keywords or mapped biomedical entities
- Ask natural-language questions and get ranked answers with snippets
- Access results in JSON, BioC, or native Elasticsearch formats
- Use tools including Variomes, SynVar, Celltriage, Biodiversity PMC, BiotXplorer
Best for: Life scientists and curation teams working with annotated biomedical literature.
Good for
- Four collections are updated daily
- Content is parsed and enriched with mapped entities from reference vocabularies
- APIs return parsed and annotated content in JSON, BioC, or Elasticsearch formats
Watch out for
- Some services are geared toward internal SIB curation-support needs
SIBiLS at a glance
- Website
- sibils.org
- Category
- Research & Data › Climate & Environmental Data
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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SIBiLS FAQ
What collections does SIBiLS cover?
MEDLINE, PubMedCentral (PMC), Plazi treatments, and PMC supplementary files, updated daily.
What are the API request limits?
The Fetch API accepts up to 1,000 document IDs per request, and the search API returns up to 10,000 documents per request.
What output formats does SIBiLS use?
JSON and BioC for fetch, and native Elasticsearch JSON for search.
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