NAME

       efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results

SYNOPSIS

       efilter  [-help]  [-query str]  [-days N]  [-datetype field]  [-mindate date] [-maxdate date] [-pub type]
       [-journal name]  [-released when]  [-country name]  [-feature type]   [-location type]   [-molecule type]
       [-organism type]   [-source type]   [-division code]  [-keyword purpose]  [-purpose why]  [-status alive]
       [-type type] [-class class]

DESCRIPTION

       efilter filters and/or sorts results from a previous Entrez Direct search.

OPTIONS

   Query Specification
       -query str
              Limit results to those matching the given query string.

   Date Constraint
       -days N
              Keep only results from the past N days.

       -datetype field
              Which date field (in abbreviated form) to consider.

       -mindate date
              Start of date range.

       -maxdate date
              End of date range.

   Publication Filters
       -pub type
              abstract, clinical, english, free, historical, journal, medline, preprint,  published,  retracted,
              retraction, review, or structured.

       -journal name
              pnas, "j bacteriol", ...

       -released when
              last_week, last_month, last_year, or prev_years.

   Sequence Filters
       -country name
              usa:minnesota, united_kingdom, "pacific ocean", ...

       -feature type
              gene, mrna, cds, mat_peptide, ...

       -location type
              mitochondrion, chloroplast, plasmid, or plastid.

       -molecule type
              genomic, mrna, trna, rrna, or ncrna.

       -organism type
              animals,  archaea,  bacteria,  eukaryotes,  fungi,  human,  insects, mammals, plants, prokaryotes,
              protists, rodents, viruses, ...

       -source type
              genbank, insd, pdb, pir, refseq, select, swissprot, or tpa.

       -division code
              Three-letter GenBank division code: bct, con, env, est, gss, htc, htg, inv, mam,  pat,  phg,  pln,
              pri, rod, sts, syn, una, vrl, or vrt.

       -keyword purpose

       -purpose why
              baseline or targeted.

   Gene Filters
       -status alive

       -type type
              coding or pseudo.

   SNP Filters
       -class class
              acceptor, donor, coding, frameshift, indel, intron, missense, nonsense, or synonymous.

   Assembly Filters
       -status status
              latest or replaced.

   Miscellaneous Arguments
       -help  Print usage information.

SEE ALSO

       combine-uid-lists(1),     difference-uid-lists(1),     esearch(1),    nquire(1),    exclude-uid-lists(1),
       intersect-uid-lists(1).

NCBI                                               2023-02-18                                         EFILTER(1)