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Describe your clinical or biomedical research question and Anara searches PubMed, bioRxiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov in one pass, returning papers with abstracts, PDF availability, and trial data you can import directly. No account needed. For researchers who need real citations from live biomedical databases, not a general web search.

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1. Describe the task

You need papers on a specific clinical topic and you need to know they are real, peer-reviewed, and importable. Searching PubMed manually works, but it does not aggregate across preprint servers or trial registries in a single query, and every found paper becomes another tab to track. Anara searches PubMed, bioRxiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov from a single prompt. It returns papers with abstracts, publication details, and a flag for which ones have open-access PDFs you can import directly to your library. Trial data from ClinicalTrials.gov includes the phase, enrollment status, and sponsor, so you can see where the clinical evidence is versus where trials are still underway. No paper is hallucinated: if it is not in the index, it will not appear. Here a graduate student in clinical nutrition is building a literature base on time-restricted eating interventions in patients with metabolic syndrome and needs recent peer-reviewed trials alongside any trials currently recruiting.

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2. Give Anara context

Required context
  • Nothing to upload. The prompt carries the search.
Optional context
  • Specific filters: date range, study design (RCT, cohort, meta-analysis), open access only.
  • Named sources: if you specifically need PubMed rather than bioRxiv, or need ClinicalTrials.gov data first, say so and Anara prioritizes that database.
  • A list of authors or journals you consider high-quality in your field. Anara can filter toward them.

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3. What Anara creates

A structured results list organized by source: PubMed papers first, bioRxiv preprints labeled as not peer-reviewed, and ClinicalTrials.gov entries last. Each paper includes the abstract, PDF availability status, and a DOI or landing page link. The output is a first-pass bibliography you can review and import from in one step: papers with confirmed open-access PDFs can be added to your library immediately. The results are for building your reading list, not for citing directly until you have read the papers.

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4. Follow-up prompts

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Import the most relevant papers to your library

When you have reviewed the results and want to bring the confirmed papers into Anara for deeper reading.

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Go deeper on the clinical trials

When you want more detail on the active or recruiting trials before your literature review is final.

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Search for a specific author’s recent work

When you know a researcher whose work is central to your topic and want a full picture of their recent output.

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5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

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How you word your prompt shapes what you get

Be specific about study design when you know what you need. “Find RCTs on X” returns a different set than “find papers on X.” If your field uses specific vocabulary (a disease classification system, a named intervention protocol, a measurement instrument), include those terms: biomedical databases use controlled vocabulary and the exact term produces sharper results than a paraphrase. If you need papers from a specific journal, name the journal and Anara filters to it.

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Check the output against your own understanding

PubMed has 30 million records: the search returns what the index holds for your query, which means a very broad query returns many papers, some only tangentially relevant. Read the abstracts before deciding what to import. Papers marked “abstract only” have no open-access full text confirmed in the index, but many are accessible via your institution’s journal access. For preprints from bioRxiv, check whether a peer-reviewed version has since been published before citing.

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What to do with the output next

Import the papers you want to read and organize them into a named folder. Once they are in your library, the cross-library search and systematic extraction tiles become available for the set. For any trial from ClinicalTrials.gov that interests you, follow the link to the full trial record to check whether interim results or protocol amendments have been posted since the index was last updated.