SRA search output
A table with one row per result is returned. Run Accessions, in the first column, are hyperlinked to the NCBI webpage for that run, where additional information can be found. In the side panel on the right, the columns to show can be configured, and the SRA Preview tab provides the title and abstract for the selected entry, when available.
The "Total number of experiments" at the bottom of the search table reports how many experiments were found in the search (not how many runs are reported in the table).
By default, up to 50 results at a time are retrieved. Click on the more... button below the table to pull additional results, 50 at a time. This number can be configured in Preferences:
Edit | Preferences (
) | General | Number of hits (NCBI/Uniprot)
Right-click on a row in the results table to get a list of possible additional searches, based on the selected run (figure 8.6).
Figure 8.6: The SRA search result table.
Retrieving and saving sequence data and metadata from SRA is described in Downloading reads and metadata from SRA.