What kind of information can be searched?
Below is a list of the different kinds of information that you can search for (applies to both quick-search and the advanced search).- Name. The name of a sequence, an alignment or any other kind of element. The name is what is displayed in the Navigation Area per default.
- Length. The length of the sequence.
- Organism. Sequences which contain information about organism can be searched. In this way, you could search for e.g. Homo sapiens sequences.
- Custom attributes. Read more in Customized attributes on data locations
Only the first item in the list, Name, is available for all kinds of data. The rest is only relevant for sequences.
If you wish to perform a search for sequence similarity, use Local BLAST instead.