Exercise 1 Database searches
Tasks of the day Learn to use NCBI ENTREZ (gquery) GQuery: NCBI Global Cross-database Search PubMed PMC Taxonomy PopSet OMIM UniGene Homologene Entrez Gene
Tips for search in NCBI Search terms typed in the query box are automatically AND ed i. e. the search engine returns documents that include all of them. boolean operators: AND OR NOT Wildcard character * –COX searches only for COX, but COX* searches anything that starts with COX, like COX1A, COX1B etc Phrase search –“pinus sylvestris” rather than pinus sylvestris
Use limits, filters and advanced search builder to create your search