NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"

NAME

efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results

SYNOPSIS

efilter [ -help] [ -query str] [ -days  N] [ -datetype field] [ -mindate  date] [ -maxdate date] [ -pub type] [ -journal name] [ -released  when] [ -country name] [ -feature type] [ -location type] [ -molecule type] [ -organism type] [ -source type] [ -division code] [ -keyword purpose] [ -purpose why] [ -status alive] [ -type type] [ -class  class]

DESCRIPTION

efilter filters and/or sorts results from a previous Entrez Direct search.

OPTIONS

Query Specification

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

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.

Publication Filters

-pub type
abstract, clinical, english, free, historical, journal, medline, preprint, published, retracted, retraction, review, or structured.
-journal name
pnas, "j bacteriol", ...
-released when
last_week, last_month, last_year, or prev_years.

Sequence Filters

-country name
usa:minnesota, united_kingdom, "pacific ocean", ...
-feature type
gene, mrna, cds, mat_peptide, ...
-location type
mitochondrion, chloroplast, plasmid, or plastid.
-molecule type
genomic, mrna, trna, rrna, or ncrna.
-organism type
animals, archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, fungi, human, insects, mammals, plants, prokaryotes, protists, rodents, viruses, ...
-source type
genbank, insd, pdb, pir, refseq, select, swissprot, or tpa.
-division code
Three-letter GenBank division code: bct, con, env, est, gss, htc, htg, inv, mam, pat, phg, pln, pri, rod, sts, syn, una, vrl, or vrt.
-keyword purpose
-purpose why
baseline or targeted.

Gene Filters

-status alive
-type type
coding or pseudo.

SNP Filters

-class class
acceptor, donor, coding, frameshift, indel, intron, missense, nonsense, or synonymous.

Assembly Filters

-status status
latest or replaced.

Miscellaneous Arguments

-help
Print usage information.

SEE ALSO

combine-uid-lists(1), difference-uid-lists(1), esearch(1), nquire(1), exclude-uid-lists(1), intersect-uid-lists(1).