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OMIM Litrack

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OMIM Litrack is a literature tracking crawler Operated by Johns Hopkins University / NCBI.

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Assessment

Academic Research

What is OMIM Litrack?

OMIM Litrack is a specialized crawler operated by the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) project, which is hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and supported by the NCBI. The bot is designed to systematically scan and monitor biomedical literature to identify new research, clinical findings, and genetic data relevant to human genes and disorders. By automating the discovery of peer-reviewed content, it ensures that the OMIM database remains a current and comprehensive resource for clinicians and geneticists worldwide.

Helpful — This bot supports the curation of authoritative genetic and clinical data used by the scientific and medical communities.

Identification

Bot name

OMIM Litrack

Operator

Johns Hopkins University / NCBI

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls the web to maintain the integrity and currency of the OMIM knowledge base, which serves as a foundational reference for human genetics. It specifically targets academic journals and scientific repositories to extract bibliographic information and phenotypic data that are then manually or semi-automatically curated by experts. Site administrators can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking the provided URL in the User-Agent string, which points to the official OMIM documentation regarding their crawling activities.

Block or allow OMIM Litrack

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for OMIM-Litrack in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block OMIM Litrack from crawling your entire site
User-agent: OMIM-Litrack
Disallow: /

# Allow OMIM Litrack full access
User-agent: OMIM-Litrack
Allow: /