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<P class="indent20bottomspace ThumbText2">This page provides <B>quick start guides</B> for some common types of searches.<BR>The <a href="mmdb_help.html"><B>MMDB Help document</B></a> provides additional search tips. <!-- detailed descriptions of the database content, search system, and display formats --> Once records of interest are retrieved, follow Entrez's "Links" to <A href="../../structure_discover.html"><B>discover associations among previously disparate data</B></A>.</P>
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<!-- P class="indent10"><A HREF="mmdb_how_to_search_by_gene.html"><B>Retrieve structures for a gene/protein product of interest</B></A></P><BR><BR -->
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