About keyword search

All words described below in our DB will be effectively hit for keyword searches.

・cDNA definitions

・blastp results against Swiss-Prot and RefSeq

(up to three definition & <1-E10)

・Pfam results (<1-E10)

・PROSITE results

・GO (Gene Ontology) terms picked up from blastp and Pfam results.

Search formula

・Any word that is too short is ignored. The minimum length of words that are found by keyword searches is four characters.

・Multiple words are combined with "AND" automatically.

・A character "*" matches any symbols. For example, "abc*" searches for words starting with "abc".

・Keyword search regards any sequence of true word characters (letters, digits, and underscores) as a word.

Search object for keyword search

・SwissProt：definition ^#, accession number, keyword ^#, OMIM number

・RefSeq：definition ^#, accession number, locus Id ^#, OMIM number

・Pfam：Pfam id, Pfam name #, Pfam description #, InterPro id
・PROSITE：second tree info #, PDOC number, third tree info #, PS number
・Gene Ontology：GO number, term #, tree info #

^# >=4 characters