NAME
efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results
SYNOPSIS
efilter [-help] [-query str] [-days N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date] [-pub type] [-journal name] [-released when] [-country name] [-feature type] [-location type] [-molecule type] [-organism type] [-source type] [-division code] [-keyword purpose] [-purpose why] [-status alive] [-type type] [-class class]
DESCRIPTION
efilter filters and/or sorts results from a previous Entrez Direct search.
OPTIONS
Query Specification
- -query str
-
Limit results to those matching the given query string.
Date Constraint
- -days N
-
Keep 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.
Publication Filters
- -pub type
-
abstract, clinical, english, free, historical, journal, medline, preprint, published, retracted, retraction, review, or structured.
- -journal name
-
pnas, "j bacteriol", ...
- -released when
-
last_week, last_month, last_year, or prev_years.
Sequence Filters
- -country name
-
usa:minnesota, united_kingdom, "pacific ocean", ...
- -feature type
-
gene, mrna, cds, mat_peptide, ...
- -location type
-
mitochondrion, chloroplast, plasmid, or plastid.
- -molecule type
-
genomic, mrna, trna, rrna, or ncrna.
- -organism type
-
animals, archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, fungi, human, insects, mammals, plants, prokaryotes, protists, rodents, viruses, ...
- -source type
-
genbank, insd, pdb, pir, refseq, select, swissprot, or tpa.
- -division code
-
Three-letter GenBank division code: bct, con, env, est, gss, htc, htg, inv, mam, pat, phg, pln, pri, rod, sts, syn, una, vrl, or vrt.
- -keyword purpose
- -purpose why
-
baseline or targeted.
Gene Filters
- -status alive
- -type type
-
coding or pseudo.
SNP Filters
- -class class
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acceptor, donor, coding, frameshift, indel, intron, missense, nonsense, or synonymous.
Assembly Filters
- -status status
-
latest or replaced.
Miscellaneous Arguments
- -help
-
Print usage information.
SEE ALSO
combine-uid-lists(1), difference-uid-lists(1), ecollect(1), elink(1), esearch(1), exclude-uid-lists(1), intersect-uid-lists(1), nquire(1), xfilter(1).