OMIM Litrack

OMIM Litrack is the literature tracking crawler associated with Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man at Johns Hopkins University. OMIM is a catalog of human genes, genetic disorders, and traits that is curated from peer-reviewed biomedical literature. LiTrack belongs to that literature workflow rather than to a general web index.

The literature tracker uses the recorded header Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OMIM-Litrack/1.0; +https://omim.org/static/omim/litrack.txt). That identity points back to OMIM, but it does not disclose a crawl rate, schedule, or complete list of material sought. Logs are the best source for understanding which publication or repository pages it visits on a particular site.

OMIM does not publish a clear robots.txt commitment for the OMIM-Litrack token in the available operator material. The accompanying crawler record says it does not follow exclusions. A robots rule can state a site owner's preference, but actual compliance remains unconfirmed until later traffic is checked.

Nothing in the record assigns Litrack a role in AI search or general-purpose model training. Its documented job is literature tracking for a biomedical reference database. A request may affect whether OMIM's curation workflow finds material on the site, but it is not evidence that an AI assistant will cite or learn from that material.