SRA search options

Search parameters

Different types of search are available from a drop-down menu on the left hand side of the search bar.

Some special types are:

Any number of search parameters may be added to refine a search, for example to construct a query for "paired-end RNA-Seq data from an Illumina HiSeq2500", but the return search must satisfy every search parameter. In other words, search parameters work as "A and B" and not as "A or B". In consequence, searches performed with two platform parameters for example "Platform = Illumina and Platform = Ion Torrent" will not return any results.

Note also that searches rely on metadata provided by the depositor of the SRA runs. This means that if, for example, an RNA-Seq run was not annotated as being RNA-Seq during submission, it won't be returned by a search for "Strategy = RNA-Seq".

Finally, the search tool uses NCBI's e-utilities, which occasionally experience downtime. If no searches return any results, check https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/ to see the status of the service.