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Access PMC Open Access articles in BioC format for text mining
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# 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, relation extraction, and other text mining tasks. Free, no authentication required.
## API Endpoints
### Base URL
```
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/RESTful/pmcoa.cgi/BioC_json/{PMCID}/unicode
```
