NAME

       entrez-phrase-search - search NCBI Entrez for phrases

SYNOPSIS

       entrez-phrase-search    [-help]    [-count[s]]   [-string]   [-db name]   [-database name]
       [-field name] query

DESCRIPTION

       entrez-phrase-search is an edirect(1) esearch(1) wrapper  script  that  searches  an  NCBI
       Entrez  database  for  a  phrase  rather than discrete keywords.  It works by breaking the
       query up into pairs of adjacent words  (disregarding  connecting  words  like  "the")  and
       intersecting searches for word pairs that appear reasonably often.

OPTIONS

       -help  Print usage information.

       -count[s]
              Just print counts for individual word pairs.

       -string
              Just print the final query string.

       -db name (-database name)
              Search the specified Entrez database (default: pubmed).

       -field name
              Search the specified field (default: TIAB, titles + abstracts).

       query  Phrase to search for.  (Quotes optional.)

SEE ALSO

       edirect(1), esearch(1), filter-stop-words(1).