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<span class="headlines">Entrez Query Goes &#147;Global&#148;</span></p>
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The Entrez search and retrieval system now offers a cross-database search
that allows a single query to span the traditional NCBI-sequence databases;
Nucleotide and Protein; the literature databases, such as PubMed&reg;,
PMC, Books, OMIM&#153;, Journals, and MeSH; the structurally-oriented
databases, Structures, the Conserved Domain Database, 3D-Domains; the
NCBI Taxonomy, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
(SNPs), Population Sets, Genomes, Sequence Tagged Sites, UniGene, Gene-centered
information (Gene), and, finally, the NCBI Web site itself. The cross
database search option, labeled &#147;Entrez&#148; on the NCBI homepage
search menu, replaces 'GenBank' as the default.</span></p>
<p><span class="bodytext3">The New Entrez Home Page</span><span class="bodycopy">
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<p><span class="bodycopy">The Entrez toolbar link on the NCBI Home Page
leads to a new Entrez Home Page which provides a cross-database search
box and a listing of the Entrez databases that can be searched in tandem.
Question mark icons to the right of each database name lead to descriptions
of database content. The database names and icons link to homepages
where single-database queries can be constructed using lists of database-specific
field restrictions, or tables that can be used to define search limits.
In addition, the Entrez homepage toolbar provides links to popular NCBI
tools and resources such as the Map Viewer and BLAST<53>. </span></p>
<p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('images/EntrezFig1lrge.html','viewlarger','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=680,height=400')"><img src="images/EntrezFig1.png" width="460" height="244" border="1" alt="Figure 1. Entrez homepage showing the new cross-database search engine with links to the 21 Entrez databases covered."></a>
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<p><span class="captions">Figure 1. </span><span class="captions2">Entrez
Home Page showing the new cross-database search engine with links to
the 21 Entrez databases covered.</span></p>
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<p><span class="bodytext3">Cross-Database Search Results</span><span class="bodycopy">
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<p class="bodycopy">When a cross-database search is completed, the number
of matches for each database is displayed in boxes adjacent to the database
name as shown in Figure 2. The Figure shows the results of a cross-database
search using the Entrez query <20>rat[organism] AND kinase<73> indicating
hits to a wide variety of databases, including those for literature,
sequence, gene expression, and structure. The four representative Entrez
displays indicated by the letters A, B, C, and D are reached by first
clicking on the the database name, icon, or number of matches to reach
the Entrez document summary of the hits, and then selecting a record
and a format for viewing.</p>
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<p class="bodycopy"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('EntrezFig2GeneImage.html','viewlarger','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=640,height=490')"><img src="images/EntrezFig2GeneImagesmall.png" width="240" height="164" border="1"></a><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('EntrezFig2CDImage.html','viewlarger','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=640,height=480')"><img src="images/EntrezFig2CDImagesmall.png" width="240" height="96" border="1"></a></p>
<p class="bodycopy">Beginning in the upper left hand corner, the figure
shows one of the 54,988 hits to the PubMed database, using the <20>Abstract<63>
display from the <20>display<61> pulldown menu. A link to the full text of
the article in PubMed Central appears just to the right of the pulldown
menu. Moving in a counter-clockwise direction, one of the 2,613 hits
to the Nucleotide database is shown using the FASTA display format with
other possible formats listed in the <20>display<61> pulldown menu. One of
the 968 records from the Entrez Gene database that gives a detailed
report on a gene. The report contains a gene description, a graphic
of the gene's structure, along with links to bibliographical references,
GenBank sequences, RefSeqs, computed and curated functional classifications,
and sequence viewers such as the Map Viewer. The last example shows
a single hit to the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) giving the sequence
alignments used to define the domain indicated. A link to a KOG (<a href="kogs.html">see
<20>KOGs and COGs are Now Included in CDD<44> in this issue</a>) appears in
the upper right-hand corner. </p>
<p><span class="bodytext3">Advanced Entrez Features</span><span class="bodycopy">
</span></p>
<p><span class="bodycopy">A cross-database search produces an individual
History page, giving a list of previously executed searches with links
to the results, for each of the Entrez databases. Other familiar Entrez
features such as the Clipboard, Details, Limits, and Preview/ Index
are also retained separately for each database since the databases support
specialized arrays of fields used to limit searches. For example, note
that in Figure 2, some of the boxes containing the number of hits to
the databases are shaded. The shading indicates that the cross-database
query contained a field delimiter not supported by the database in question.
The query of Figure 2, <20>rat[organism] AND kinase<73>, uses the <20>organism<73>
field restriction; the <20>organism<73> field is supported within the Nucleotide,
CDD and Gene databases, but not within the PubMed literature database.
In this case, the search was performed using the term <20>rat<61> in <20>all
fields<64>. This can be verified by clicking on PubMed in the cross-database
results page, to reach the PubMed database display of the hits, and
then clicking on the <20>Details<6C> link in the PubMed display to see how
the cross-database search was executed within the PubMed database. </span></p>
<p><span class="bodycopy">The Entrez search and retrieval system is robust
and flexible. To learn more about searching and navigating between Entrez
databases or displaying and downloading results, see: </span></p>
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<span class="bodycopy">Geer RC, Sayers EW. Entrez: making use of its power.
<i>Briefings in Bioinformatics</i>. 2003 Jun;4(2):179-84. PMID: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12846398&dopt=Abstract">12846398</a>
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<p class="tables2" align="center"><font size="2">Query Across All
Entrez Databases by Script</font></p>
<p class="tables">Entrez cross-database searches can be performed
by script using a new E-Utility program called EGQuery. E-Utilities
are programs residing on NCBI servers that can be accessed by posting
a standard URL containing the script name and a set of parameters.
For example, posting the following URL from within a script will
return the number of hits to each Entrez database for the query
&quot;stem cells&quot;:<br>
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<p class="links2" align="center"><a href="http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/egquery.fcgi?term=stem%2Bcells">eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/egquery.fcgi?term=stem+cells</a></p>
<p class="tables">Results are returned in XML format. For details
on the use of EGQuery or other E-Utilities, see:</p>
<p align="center" class="links2"><a href="http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/eutils_help.html">eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/eutils_help.html</a></p>
<p class="tables">To receive announcements of new E-Utility features,
subscribe to the E-&quot;utilities-announce&quot; listserve at:</p>
<p class="links2" align="center"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/utilities-announce">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/utilities-announce</a></p>
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