Wild Cards in Ontology Searches
The following wild card characters are available for Term Lookup searches of the controlled vocabulary terms.
Wild Cards in the Term Lookup search
| Wild Card | Matches | Example | Example Results |
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| * | 0 or more characters | *phophatas* | pyrophosphatase, hyphophosphatasia, etc. |
| . | 1 character | inositol-.,4 | inositol-1,4, inositol-2,4, etc. |
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All Term Lookup searches are substring phrase searches
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All words have an implicit wild card on each side for the Term Lookup search- partial terms can be used. Dashes, commas, and parentheses are ignored, so a search for "T-cell" is the same as a search for "T cell".
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Term Lookup searches can be restricted to a specific controlled vocabulary hierarchy by providing the two letter hierarchy code in front of the search term. For example, a search for 'EX liver' will limit the search to the Expression hierarchy returning a single result, while a search for 'liver' will consider all hierarchies and return a larger set of results. Click here to view the list of hierarchy codes.
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GO IDs and synonyms can be used for Term Lookup searches. For example, a search for "death" or "0006915" will return the term "BP: apoptosis".
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Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) IDs and synonyms can be used for Disease searches. For example, a Disease search for "pancreatic cancer" or "D010190" will return the Disease View page "Pancreatic Neoplasms".