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EFILTER(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual EFILTER(1)

NAME

efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results

SYNOPSIS

efilter (efetch -filter) [-help] [-query str] [-sort field] [-days N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date] [-spell] [-pub type] [-feature type] [-location type] [-molecule type] [-organism type] [-source type] [-status alive] [-type type] [-label name]

DESCRIPTION

efilter filters and/or sorts results from a previous edirect(1) search.

OPTIONS

Query Specification

-query str
Limit results to those matching the given query string.

Document Order

-sort field
Sort results by the given field.

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.

Spell Check

-spell
Correct misspellings in query.

Publication Filters

-pub type
abstract, clinical, english, free, historical, journal, last_week, last_month, last_year, preprint, review, structured.

Sequence Filters

-feature type
gene, mrna, cds, mat_peptide, ...
-location type
mitochondrion, chloroplast, plasmid, plastid.
-molecule type
genomic, mrna, trna, rrna, ncrna.
-organism type
animals, archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, fungi, human, insects, mammals, plants, prokaryotes, protists, rodents, viruses.
-source type
genbank, insd, pdb, pir, refseq, swissprot, tpa

Gene Filters

-status alive
-type type
coding, pseudo.

Miscellaneous Arguments

-help
Print usage information.
-label name
Alias for query step.

SEE ALSO

edirect(1).
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