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| The following are some suggestions that may help you find what you're looking for if you're having trouble searching. For a full listing of advanced search options available on BioGRID ORCS, visit our **[[orcs:advanced_search|advanced search information]]** page: | The following are some suggestions that may help you find what you're looking for if you're having trouble searching. For a full listing of advanced search options available on BioGRID ORCS, visit our **[[orcs:advanced_search|advanced search information]]** page: | ||
| - | ==== Gene/Identifier Search Tips ==== | + | === Gene/Identifier Search Tips === |
| * **Don't use ambiguous names**. When possible, search for unique identifiers or systematic names. Many identifiers across the different species are duplicated, and as a result, may not uniquely identify a specific record. The more unique the identifier, the better your chance of getting a direct hit on searches. | * **Don't use ambiguous names**. When possible, search for unique identifiers or systematic names. Many identifiers across the different species are duplicated, and as a result, may not uniquely identify a specific record. The more unique the identifier, the better your chance of getting a direct hit on searches. | ||
| * **Make sure the identifier you're searching for is supported.** Check out our **[[orcs:identifiers|list of supported identifiers]]** if you're not sure. | * **Make sure the identifier you're searching for is supported.** Check out our **[[orcs:identifiers|list of supported identifiers]]** if you're not sure. | ||
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| * **Don't use invalid characters**. For identifier searches, the only valid characters are: english alphabet (A-Z), numbers 0-9, hyphen -, round brackets ( ), period ., underscore _, and star *. | * **Don't use invalid characters**. For identifier searches, the only valid characters are: english alphabet (A-Z), numbers 0-9, hyphen -, round brackets ( ), period ., underscore _, and star *. | ||
| - | ==== Publication Search Tips ==== | + | === Publication Search Tips === |
| * For a comprehensive listing of options and examples of publication searches, visit our **[[orcs:advanced_search|advanced search]]** information page. | * For a comprehensive listing of options and examples of publication searches, visit our **[[orcs:advanced_search|advanced search]]** information page. | ||
| * **Some words are automatically ignored from searches simply because they are too common**. For a complete listing of the most common words that are blocked, you can visit the **[[http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-stopwords.html|MySQL Full-Text Stopwords]]** Listing. If you search for just the words "to" and "from", your search will return no results because both words are ignored. If you search for "Protein to Complex" you may get results because protein and complex are both valid while "to" is simply ignored. | * **Some words are automatically ignored from searches simply because they are too common**. For a complete listing of the most common words that are blocked, you can visit the **[[http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-stopwords.html|MySQL Full-Text Stopwords]]** Listing. If you search for just the words "to" and "from", your search will return no results because both words are ignored. If you search for "Protein to Complex" you may get results because protein and complex are both valid while "to" is simply ignored. | ||
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| * **Don't use invalid characters**. For publication searches, the only valid characters are: english alphabet (A-Z), numbers 0-9, hyphen -, round brackets ( ), period ., underscore _, plus sign +, double quotes ", angled brackets < >, tilde ~, forward slash /, and star *. | * **Don't use invalid characters**. For publication searches, the only valid characters are: english alphabet (A-Z), numbers 0-9, hyphen -, round brackets ( ), period ., underscore _, plus sign +, double quotes ", angled brackets < >, tilde ~, forward slash /, and star *. | ||
| - | ==== Controlled Vocabulary Search Tips ==== | + | === Controlled Vocabulary Search Tips === |
| * For all the controlled vocabulary search options (all other options besides gene and publication searches, examples: Enzyme, Condition, Cell Line etc.) we highly recommend you use the provided drop down list as a means for selecting terms you want to see. These lists are the definitive versions of available search terms and you will avoid mistakes by using the dropdown to make selections. In the event that a term you expect to be in the list is not available, it's likely simply because we have no yet curated a dataset in which that term was used to annotate it. | * For all the controlled vocabulary search options (all other options besides gene and publication searches, examples: Enzyme, Condition, Cell Line etc.) we highly recommend you use the provided drop down list as a means for selecting terms you want to see. These lists are the definitive versions of available search terms and you will avoid mistakes by using the dropdown to make selections. In the event that a term you expect to be in the list is not available, it's likely simply because we have no yet curated a dataset in which that term was used to annotate it. | ||