NAME
ecollect - list NCBI Entrez unique identifiers
SYNOPSIS
ecollect -db name -web str -key N [-days|-reldate N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date]
ecollect -db name -query str [-days|-reldate N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date]
ecollect -db name -id str...|-rest str|-input file
DESCRIPTION
ecollect lists unique identifiers from NCBI Entrez, either corresponding to a live query or explicitly supplied. In either case, it presents them one per line in numerical order with any duplicates consolidated.
OPTIONS
Source Specification
- -db name
-
Entrez database name. Mandatory even when explicitly supplying UIDs.
- -web str
-
NCBI WebEnv value corresponding to a previous query, optionally subject to further filtering by date.
- -key N
-
That query's number.
- -query str
-
Query string.
- -id str ...|-rest str
-
Existing UID(s) to format; may be internally delimited by whitespace and any punctuation other than . or _.
- -input file
-
Read UIDs from the specified file.
Date Constraint
- -days|-reldate N
-
Return only results from the past N days.
- -datetype field
-
Which date field (in abbreviated form) to consider.
- -mindate date
-
Start of date range.
- -maxdate date
-
End of date range.
SEE ALSO
cit2pmid(1), combine-uid-lists(1), difference-uid-lists(1), efetch(1), efilter(1), elink(1), esearch(1), exclude-uid-lists(1), intersect-uid-lists(1), nquire(1), xfetch(1), xfilter(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1).