The following are advanced search options you can use to help better target the search results you're looking for. For a list of helpful search tips, visit our search tip information listing:

BiOGRID Gene/Identifier searches can be performed by clicking on the “gene” tab from the main search page. To perform a gene/identifier search, you simply enter your term (such as STE11 or KSS1) and our engine will search for matching identifiers. For a list of our currently supported identifiers, you can check out our supported identifiers for searches listing.

• Wildcard Searches - The BioGRID supports wildcard searching (ie. searching where the search is not exact but rather a range of possible matches) on the TAIL end of any keyword entered in our search field. To perform a wildcard search, simply enter your prefix (must be 3 letters or more) followed by a star (*).
  • Examples: STE*, CDC*, YAL01*, CLN*
  • These will not work: ST*E, *L01, CC* (too short)

If you click on the “Publication” tab from the main page, you can search by pubmed id. Simply enter a list of valid pubmed ids separated by spaces, commas, or newlines and our search will pull up as many as it can find as long as they contain interactions within our database. Here are some examples:

• 9006895
• 10391924,12361954,11923305,9050991,12624098

Be sure that you don't mix pubmed ID searches with full text searches (described below) if for example you search for “10391924 DIABETES” (combining a pubmed and a full text term) our search will simply ignore the full text term and search exclusively for the pubmed id, potentially returning a result you were not interested in. Also, pubmed IDs can contain only numbers 0-9, so any alpha characters will result in an invalid pubmed id.

Note: BioGRID does not archive the entire pubmed database. When searching by Pubmed ID you are searching only those publications that have been curated by our curation team. If a publication is not available that you think contains interactions, please contact us at biogridadmin@gmail.com and let us know the pubmed ID so we can ensure its availability in a future update.

BioGRID supports searching publications by full text terms which can be performed using boolean operators for greater flexibility and customization of search results. To search a publication by full text terms, simply click on the “publication” tab and enter your terms into the text field. Full text searches are performed on 4 fields simultaneously: Title, Authors, Abstract, and NCBI Mesh Terms. Results will be returned if your keywords are found in any of these 4 fields.

Here are some of the options available to modify your full text search using boolean operators:

• OR Searching - If you search for keywords simply separated by spaces, you are performing an OR search. For example, if you search for SH2 Domain this is the equivalent of saying return papers containing SH2 or Domain or both. This is most useful for searching multiple relevant terms for a specific project such as Kinase Phosphatase Cyclin where any one of them is relevant enough to return the publication.

• Multiple Gene/Publications Searches - Coming Soon