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# SWISS-PROT

## Full text search

The search is performed on the current SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL releases, as well as the weekly updates.
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.(SWISS-PROT Release 39.11 of 08-Dec-2000, 91132 entries; TrEMBL Release 15.11 of 08-Dec-2000, 371210 entries).
The index has been created by the Glimpse search engine.

Enter search keywords:
Prefix and append wildcard '*' to words.
Search in: SWISS-PROT TrEMBL

For more directed searches, you can use the Sequence Retrieval System SRS .

- Search keywords may be any word appearing in SWISS-PROT or TrEMBL. The lines that have been indexed are: AC, ID, DE, GN, OS, OC, RX, RC, RA, RT, RL, CC, DR, KW, FT lines.
  The DT, RN, RP, SQ lines and the sequences are not indexed, because they do not contain information that is useful in this context.

- Characters allowed as part of a 'word' are _-#'(),./*.

- The search is case insensitive.

- Wildcards may be used to search with partial words. However, the use of wildcard is only possible through the checkbox 'Prefix and append wildcard '*' to words'. If you enter '*' as part of a search keyword, it will not be expanded to have the wildcard meaning: the program will then search for all words containing the '*' symbol. Example: 'ii*' in OMPA_ECOLI.

- You can use AND, OR and NOT to restrict your search, with braces (i.e. '{' and '}') to specify the order.
  Please note that parentheses (i.e. '(', ')') may be part of certain words in SWISS-PROT (e.g. 'nad(+)') and can therefore not be used to group your search expressions.

- If words are given without any boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT), these words will be searched as adjacent words in the database(s).

- Example of searches:
  - heat shock: will list entries containing "heat shock" (adjacent words).
  - atpase AND coli: will list entries containing both "atpase" and "coli".
  - coli AND {atpase OR atp synthetase}: will list entries containing "coli" and either "atpase" or "atp synthetase".
  - atpase NOT coli: will list entries containing "atpase", except those containing "coli".
  - aldehyde:
    - with the option 'Prefix and append wildcard '*' to words':
      will list entries containing "aldehyde", as well as "glyceraldehyde", "lactaldehyde", "aspartate-semialdehyde", etc.
    - without the option'Prefix and append wildcard '*' to words':
      will only list entries containing the exact word "aldehyde".

###### Last modified 17/Feb/1999 by CHH

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