NAME

       ecollect - list NCBI Entrez unique identifiers

SYNOPSIS

       ecollect -db name -web str -key N [-days|-reldate N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date]

       ecollect -db name -query str [-days|-reldate N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date] [-maxdate date]

       ecollect -db name -id str...|-rest str|-input file

DESCRIPTION

       ecollect  lists  unique  identifiers from NCBI Entrez, either corresponding to a live query or explicitly
       supplied.  In either case, it presents  them  one  per  line  in  numerical  order  with  any  duplicates
       consolidated.

OPTIONS

   Source Specification
       -db name
              Entrez database name.  Mandatory even when explicitly supplying UIDs.

       -web str
              NCBI  WebEnv  value  corresponding to a previous query, optionally subject to further filtering by
              date.

       -key N That query's number.

       -query str
              Query string.

       -id str ...|-rest str
              Existing UID(s) to format; may be internally delimited by whitespace  and  any  punctuation  other
              than . or _.

       -input file
              Read UIDs from the specified file.

   Date Constraint
       -days|-reldate N
              Return 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.

SEE ALSO

       cit2pmid(1),  combine-uid-lists(1), difference-uid-lists(1), efetch(1), efilter(1), elink(1), esearch(1),
       exclude-uid-lists(1), intersect-uid-lists(1), nquire(1), xfetch(1), xfilter(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1).

NCBI                                               2025-05-26                                        ECOLLECT(1)