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23 <title>The UniProt Free Text Search Interface</title>
27 <strong>The UniProt Free Text Search Interface</strong>
28 <br /> Since version 2.10 (October 2016), the Jalview Desktop
29 provides a search interface for interactive discovery and retrieval of
30 sequence data from UniProt. This dialog enables UniProt sequence
31 metadata to be searched with free text and structured queries, which
32 allows sequences to be located via gene name, keywords, or even
33 <em>via</em> manual cross-referencing from UniProt or other
34 bioinformatics websites.
36 To open the UniProt Sequence Fetcher, select UniProt as the database
37 from any <a href="seqfetch.html">Sequence Fetcher</a> dialog (opened
38 <em>via</em> <strong>"File →Fetch
39 Sequences"</strong>).
42 <img src="uniprotseqfetcher.png" align="left"
43 alt="UniProt sequence fetcher (introduced in Jalview 2.10)" />
47 <strong>Searching the UniProt Database</strong>
49 <p>To search UniProt, simply begin typing in the text box. If the
50 'autosearch' check box is enabled, then after a short delay (about
51 1.5 seconds), results will be shown in the table below. Results are
52 also updated whenever you press Enter, and you can access previous
53 searches by pressing the 'Down' arrow or clicking the drop-down menu
54 icon at the side of the search box.</p>
55 <p>You can sort results by clicking on the displayed columns,
56 and select entries with the mouse or keyboard. Once you have
57 selected one or more entries, hit the <strong>OK</strong> button to
58 retrieve the sequences.
61 <li><strong>Searching a specific UniProt field </strong> To
62 find sequences with particular UniProt metadata, you can select a
63 field to search from the drop-down menu.</li>
66 <li><strong>Bulk UniProt record retrieval</strong><br> To
67 retrieve sequences for a list of Uniprot accessions, please enter
68 them via the 'Retrieve IDs' tab.</li>
70 <li><strong><a name="text-search">Complex queries
71 with the UniProt query Syntax</a></strong> The text box also allows complex
72 queries to be entered. The table below provides a brief overview
73 of the supported syntax (see <a href="uniprotqueryfields.html">query
74 fields for UniProtKB</a>):
75 <table border="1" width="95%">
77 <td><code>human antigen</code></td>
78 <td rowspan="3">All entries containing both terms.</td>
81 <td><code>human AND antigen</code></td>
84 <td><code>human && antigen</code></td>
87 <td><code>"human antigen"</code></td>
88 <td>All entries containing both terms in the exact order.</td>
91 <td><code>human -antigen</code></td>
92 <td rowspan="3">All entries containing the term <code>human</code>
93 but not <code>antigen</code>.
97 <td><code>human NOT antigen</code></td>
100 <td><code>human ! antigen</code></td>
103 <td><code>human OR mouse</code></td>
104 <td rowspan="2">All entries containing either term.</td>
107 <td><code>human || mouse</code></td>
110 <td><code>antigen AND (human OR mouse)</code></td>
111 <td>Using parentheses to override boolean precedence
115 <td><code>anti*</code></td>
116 <td>All entries containing terms starting with <code>anti</code>.
117 Asterisks can also be used at the beginning and within
118 terms. <strong>Note:</strong> Terms starting with an
119 asterisk or a single letter followed by an asterisk can slow
120 down queries considerably.
124 <td><code> author:Tiger*</code></td>
125 <td>Citations that have an author whose name starts with
126 <code>Tiger</code>. To search in a specific field of a
127 dataset, you must prefix your search term with the field
128 name and a colon. To discover what fields can be queried
129 explicitly, observe the query hints that are shown after
130 submitting a query or use the query builder (see below).
134 <td><code>length:[100 TO *]</code></td>
135 <td>All entries with a sequence of at least 100 amino
139 <td><code>citation:(author:Arai author:Chung)</code></td>
140 <td>All entries with a publication that was coauthored by
141 two specific authors.</td>
146 <strong>Result pagination</strong>
148 The query results returned from the UniProt server are paginated for
149 performance optimisation. The button labelled
150 <strong>' << '</strong> and
151 <strong>' >> '</strong> can be used to navigate to the
152 next or previous result page respectively. The page range is shown on
153 the title bar of the Free Text Search interface. Jalview's pagination
154 implementation supports multiple selection of entries across multiple
159 <strong>Customising The UniProt Sequence Fetcher</strong>
161 <p>To change the displayed meta-data in the search result, click
162 the 'Customise Displayed Options' tab, and select the fields you'd
163 like to be displayed or removed.</p>
165 <em>The UniProt Free Test Search Interface was introduced in