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NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User’s Manual"

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

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), esearch(1), nquire(1), exclude-uid-lists(1), intersect-uid-lists(1).