Life Sciences Literature
Finds and summarizes biomedical papers and preprints from PubMed, PMC and bioRxiv or medRxiv.
What Life Sciences Literature can do in ChatGPT
Search biomedical papers and preprints together.
PubMed Search
Find biomedical papers with focused searches.
Open Access Check
See if full text is free in PubMed Central.
Preprint Search
Find early work on bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Version Comparison
Compare a preprint with its published version.
Citation Details
Get citation metadata and publication links.
You stay in control
You approve access, and you can disconnect Life Sciences Literature at any time.
What Life Sciences Literature does in ChatGPT
The Life Sciences Literature plugin helps you find and summarize biomedical research from ChatGPT. It draws on PubMed records, the open-access collection in PubMed Central, and preprints posted to bioRxiv and medRxiv before peer review. It is made by OpenAI and comes with three focused skills.
You can run focused searches on a topic, such as recent work on a protein in brain immune cells, and get citation details for each paper. It can also check whether a given PubMed ID has free full text available in PubMed Central.
One useful job is comparing a preprint with the version later published in a journal, so you can see what changed. The plugin includes three skills for bioRxiv, NCBI Entrez and PMC. It is a research tool and does not give medical advice.
Built-in skills
The listing says Life Sciences Literature comes with 3 skills. Skills are ready-made instructions ChatGPT can use for a specific job.
- Biorxiv skill
- Ncbi entrez skill
- Ncbi pmc skill
Who it is for
- Biomedical researchers
- Clinicians following new research
- Science students writing reviews
How to add Life Sciences Literature to ChatGPT
- Open the Life Sciences Literature listing in ChatGPT ↗.
- Click Install plugin.
- Sign in to your Life Sciences Literature account when asked and approve the access it requests.
- Start a chat and ask for what you need, mentioning Life Sciences Literature if ChatGPT does not pick it up.
- To stop, disconnect Life Sciences Literature under apps in your ChatGPT settings.
Questions about Life Sciences Literature
What is the Life Sciences Literature ChatGPT plugin?
The Life Sciences Literature plugin helps you find and summarize biomedical research from ChatGPT. It draws on PubMed records, the open-access collection in PubMed Central, and preprints posted to bioRxiv and medRxiv before peer review. It is made by OpenAI and comes with three focused skills. It is listed in ChatGPT's plugin marketplace under Scientific Research.
What can I ask Life Sciences Literature to do in ChatGPT?
For example: "Find recent papers and preprints about TREM2 in microglia", "Does this PMID have open-access full text in PMC?", "Compare the published and preprint versions of this DOI". It also comes with built-in skills such as Biorxiv skill, Ncbi entrez skill and Ncbi pmc skill.
Who makes the Life Sciences Literature plugin for ChatGPT?
The ChatGPT listing names OpenAI as the developer. The version listed on 8 October 2026 was 0.1.5.
How do I add Life Sciences Literature to ChatGPT?
Open the Life Sciences Literature listing in ChatGPT, click Install plugin, sign in to your Life Sciences Literature account and approve the access it asks for. Then ask for what you need in a chat, mentioning Life Sciences Literature if ChatGPT does not pick it up.
Can Life Sciences Literature change things in my account, or only read?
The listing marks it as interactive with read and write access. It searches public literature sources and returns records and summaries.
Who is the Life Sciences Literature plugin for?
Biomedical researchers, clinicians following new research and science students writing reviews.
Does it include preprints?
Yes. It covers bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints alongside PubMed and PubMed Central.
Can it tell if a paper is free to read?
It can check whether a PubMed ID has open-access full text in PubMed Central.
Does Life Sciences Literature see my ChatGPT chats?
When Life Sciences Literature is connected, ChatGPT may share the parts of your chats and memories that matter for a request with Life Sciences Literature. What Life Sciences Literature does with that data falls under its own terms and privacy policy. ChatGPT keeps your training-data settings, and you can disconnect at any time.
How do I disconnect Life Sciences Literature from ChatGPT?
Open your ChatGPT settings, go to apps, and disconnect Life Sciences Literature. You can reconnect later from the listing.
What are alternatives to Life Sciences Literature in ChatGPT?
Similar plugins in the ChatGPT marketplace include Undermind, Biological Sequence & Alignment Viewer and Life Sciences Databases. Each has its own page in this directory.
Privacy and your data
When Life Sciences Literature is connected, ChatGPT may share the parts of your chats and memories that matter for a request with Life Sciences Literature. What Life Sciences Literature then does with that data falls under its own terms and privacy policy, not only OpenAI's. ChatGPT keeps your training-data settings for data that comes from connected apps, and you can disconnect at any time.
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