From: Infrastructure for the life sciences: design and implementation of the UniProt website
Query | Returns |
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human antigen | All entries containing both terms |
human AND antigen | Â |
"human antigen" | All entries containing both terms in the same order |
anti* | All entries containing terms starting with anti. To search for a term that contains an actual asterisk, escape the asterisk with a backslash (anti\*). Asterisks can be used within and at the end of terms. |
human-antigen | All entries containing the term human but not antigen |
human NOT antigen | Â |
human OR antigen | All entries containing either term |
antigen (human OR pig) | Using brackets to override Boolean precedence rules |
author:Tiger* | All entries with a citation that has an author whose name starts with Tiger. Note the field prefix author; had we left it out, there would have been a large amount of unwanted results. |
gene:L\(1\)2CB | All entries with the specified gene name. Note how the backslash is used to escape the brackets, which would otherwise be interpreted as part of a Boolean query. Other characters that must be escaped are: []{}?:~* |
gene:* | All entries that have a gene name. |