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embl search in SRS

Peter Rice pmr at sanger.ac.uk
Fri Dec 4 08:38:10 EST 1998


Jean-Marc Plaza <plaza at infobiogen.fr> writes:
> I find a problem using parentheses for embl search :
> 
> no entries found, query: "[embl-Description: alpha* & (globin*|hemoglobin*)] "

Seems that parentheses are badly broken:

getz '[swissprot-authors:drew* & rice*]'  -> 1 entry
getz '[swissprot-authors:(drew* & rice*)]'  -> nothing

But the SRS manual offers as an example:

[medline-authors:(wu* & rice*) ! (smith* | jones*)]

so we are apparently using the 'correct' syntax.

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