MEDOC: a Python wrapper to load MEDLINE into a local MySQL database

Understand

Since the MEDLINE database was released, the number of documents indexed by this entity has risen every year.

• Several tools have been developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to query this corpus of scientific publications.
• However, in terms of advances in big data, text-mining and data science, an option to build a local relational database containing all metadata available on MEDLINE would be truly useful to optimally exploit these resources.
• MEDOC (MEdline DOwnloading Contrivance) is a Python program designed to download data on an FTP and to load all extracted information into a local MySQL database.