<p>
<strong>Searching the UniProt Database</strong>
</p>
- <p>
- To search UniProt, simply begin typing in the text box. After a
- short delay (about 1.5 seconds), results will be shown in the table
- below. You can sort results by clicking on the displayed columns,
+ <p>To search UniProt, simply begin typing in the text box. If the
+ 'autosearch' check box is enabled, then after a short delay (about
+ 1.5 seconds), results will be shown in the table below. Results are
+ also updated whenever you press Enter, and you can access previous
+ searches by pressing the 'Down' arrow or clicking the drop-down menu
+ icon at the side of the search box.</p>
+ <p>You can sort results by clicking on the displayed columns,
and select entries with the mouse or keyboard. Once you have
selected one or more entries, hit the <strong>OK</strong> button to
retrieve the sequences.
<li><strong>Bulk UniProt record retrieval</strong><br> To
- retrieve several uniprot accessions at once, first select <strong>UniProt
- ID</strong> from the dropdown menu, then paste in the accession IDs as a
- semi-colon separated list. (e.g. fila_human; mnt_human;
- mnt_mouse).<br />Hitting Return or OK will automatically fetch
- those IDs, like the default Sequence Fetcher interface.</li>
+ retrieve sequences for a list of Uniprot accessions, please enter
+ them via the 'Retrieve IDs' tab.</li>
- <li><strong><a name="text-search">Complex queries with the UniProt query
- Syntax</a></strong> The text box also allows complex queries to be entered.
- The table below provides a brief overview of the supported syntax
- (see <a href="uniprotqueryfields.html">query fields for
- UniProtKB</a>):
+ <li><strong><a name="text-search">Complex queries
+ with the UniProt query Syntax</a></strong> The text box also allows complex
+ queries to be entered. The table below provides a brief overview
+ of the supported syntax (see <a href="uniprotqueryfields.html">query
+ fields for UniProtKB</a>):
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<td><code>human antigen</code></td>