Search for Sequences at NCBI
This section describes searches for sequences in GenBank - the NCBI database using Entrez (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3837/)
Download | Search for Sequences at
NCBI (
) or Ctrl + B (
+ B on Mac)
This opens the following view (figure 8.1).
Figure 8.1: The GenBank search view.
The search view can be saved either using dragging the search tab
and and dropping it in the Navigation Area or by clicking
Save (
). When saving the search, only the parameters
are saved - not the results of the search. This is useful if you
have a special search that you perform from time to time.
Even if you don't save the search, the next time you open the search view, it will remember the parameters from the last time you did a search.
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