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

efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results

efilter (efetch -filter) [-help] [-q[uery] str] [-sort field] [-days N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date] [-field field] [-pairs field] [-spell] [-pub type] [-journal name] [-released when] [-country name] [-feature type] [-location type] [-molecule type] [-organism type] [-source type] [-status alive] [-type type] [-class class] [-label name]

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

Limit results to those matching the given query string.

Sort results by the given field.

Keep only results from the past N days.
Which date field (in abbreviated form) to consider.
Start of date range.
End of date range.

Query words individually in field.
Query overlapping word pairs.

Correct misspellings in query.

abstract, clinical, english, free, historical, journal, preprint, review, structured.
pnas, "j bacteriol", ...
last_week, last_month, last_year, prev_years.

usa:minnesota, united_kingdom, "pacific ocean", ...
gene, mrna, cds, mat_peptide, ...
mitochondrion, chloroplast, plasmid, plastid.
genomic, mrna, trna, rrna, ncrna.
animals, archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, fungi, human, insects, mammals, plants, prokaryotes, protists, rodents, viruses, ...
genbank, insd, pdb, pir, refseq, swissprot, tpa

coding, pseudo.

acceptor, donor, frameshift, indel, intron, missense, nonsense, synonymous.

Print usage information.
Alias for query step.

edirect(1).

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