Keyword Examples


kuhara takagi	<- last names (may occur as authors).
		   note that keywords concatinated by 
		   white spaces mean logical AND.

bse	<- name of a disease.

3.4.15.*	<- EC numbers. note that * means wildcard.

SLTA_BPH19	<- entry name (may occur as cross-reference).

C00873	<- this example illustrates that genbank and compound have 
	   two different entries with same name.



{calmodulin inhibitor}	<- phrase search.

"calmodulin inhibitor"	<- same as {calmodulin inhibitor}.

phospho* toxic	<- logical AND of wildcard and normal keywords.

{toxic metabolite*}	<- this search results in 'No match'. 
			   note that wildcards could not be used 
			   in combination with phase search.

{chemokine receptor} | {shiga-like toxin}
		<- logical OR of two phrases.

01-Jan-1999	<- date-month-year.

93/12/07	<- YY/MM/DD (sometimes it fails to match but I don't
		   know why. maybe it is caused by slashes).

{Proc Natl Acad Sci} | pronas | Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci*
		<- name of a journal (this example takes long time).

{Vol.117 No.33}	<- volume and number of journals.

8541-8547	<- pages of some papers.

Pro-Phe-*	<- protein subsequences.

C-x-C-*		<- motifs.

Mustelidae	<- an organism.

17q24		<- a chromosome.

C20H32*		<- chemical formuli.

{C21 H28 N7 O14 P2}	<- chemical formuli (may occur in FORMUL of PDB).

{3/10 HELIX}	<- a secondary structure.

{EXPRESSION_SYSTEM_VECTOR YEAST}
		<- combination of subfield name and its value.

{molecule_type mRNA}
		<- combination of subfield name and its value.

1950bp		<- length of a sequence (bp means `base pair').

{CAAX box}	<- CAAX box.