NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results
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]
efilter filters and/or sorts results from a previous Entrez
Direct search.
- -query str
- Limit results to those matching the given query string.
- -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.
- -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.
- -class class
- acceptor, donor, coding, frameshift,
indel, intron, missense, nonsense, or
synonymous.
- -help
- Print usage information.