NAME

       efilter - filter and/or sort NCBI Entrez search results

SYNOPSIS

       efilter (efetch -filter) [-help] [-q[uery] str] [-sort field] [-days N] [-datetype field] [-mindate date]
       [-maxdate date]  [-field field]  [-pairs field]  [-spell]  [-pub type]  [-journal name]  [-released when]
       [-country name]  [-feature type]  [-location type]   [-molecule type]   [-organism type]   [-source type]
       [-status alive] [-type type] [-class class] [-kind pathway] [-pathway type] [-label name]

DESCRIPTION

       efilter filters and/or sorts results from a previous edirect(1) search.

OPTIONS

   Query Specification
       -q[uery] str
              Limit results to those matching the given query string.

   Document Order
       -sort field
              Sort results by the given field.

   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.

   Limit by Field
       -field field
              Query words individually in field.

       -pairs field
              Query overlapping word pairs.

   Spell Check
       -spell Correct misspellings in query.

   Publication Filters
       -pub type
              abstract, clinical, english, free, historical, journal, preprint, review, structured.

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

       -released when
              last_week, last_month, last_year, prev_years.

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

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

       -location type
              mitochondrion, chloroplast, plasmid, plastid.

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

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

       -source type
              genbank, insd, pdb, pir, refseq, swissprot, tpa

   Gene Filters
       -status alive

       -type type
              coding, pseudo.

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

   Biosystems Filters
       -kind pathway

       -pathway type
              reactome, wikipathways.

   Miscellaneous Arguments
       -help  Print usage information.

       -label name
              Alias for query step.

SEE ALSO

       edirect(1), exclude-uid-lists(1).

NCBI                                               2019-09-17                                         EFILTER(1)