Quick Reference
| BOOLEAN OPERATORS | SEPARATE TWO OR MORE TERMS OR BIBLIOGRAPHIC FIELDS | MUST BE ALL CAPS |
|---|---|---|
| AND (intersection) | kinase AND inhibitor | will retrieve documents where both terms exist |
| AND is the default operator | kinase inhibitor | will retrieve documents where both terms exist |
| OR (union) | kinase OR inhibitor | will retrieve documents where either of the terms exist |
| NOT (difference) | kinase NOT inhibitor | will exclude documents that contain the term after NOT |
| AND, OR , NOT | kinase AND (tyrosine OR serine) NOT MAP |
returns documents that contain kinase, either tyrosine or serine, but not map |
| WILCARDS | RETRIEVE PLURALS OR VARIANT WORDS | CANNOT BE USED AS THE FIRST CHARACTER OF A WORD |
| ? represents one and only one character | sterili?e | will search for sterilize or sterilise |
| * represents 0 to n characters | test* | will search for test, tester, testing, tested etc |
| PHRASES | TO SEARCH A PHRASE, PLACE WITHIN DOUBLE QUOTES | WILD CARDS TYPED WITHIN A PHRASE WILL BE IGNORED |
| " " | "kinase inhibitor" | will retrieve documents where the phrase exists exactly as entered |
| PROXIMITY | TO FIND WORDS THAT ARE WITHIN A SPECIFIC PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER, USE THE TILDE "~" SYMBOL AT THE END OF A PHRASE | |
| ~ | vaccine adjuvant~10 | will retrieve vaccine and adjuvant appearing within 10 words of each other, in that order |
| Lucene Field Names | ENTER LUCENE QUERY IN SURECHEMBL QUERY USING LUCENE FIELD NAMES | MUST BE ALL LOWER CASE |
| SureChEMBL Query Default Lucene Fields | ENTER TEXT IN SureChEMBL QUERY | ALL SureChEMBL QUERY DEFAULT LUCENE FIELDS WILL BE SEARCHED |
| pn pnnum (publication number) an anum (application number) ad adyear (application dates) pri prinum (priority data) prid pridyear (priority dates) ic (IPCR) ecla (ECLA or ICO) uc (US Classification) pa (assignee or applicant) inv (inventor) agt (agent) text (ttl OR ab OR desc OR clm) |
google 0555555 |
will retrieve documents where google appears as patent assignee or documents where the term google appears anywhere in the text will retrieve documents where 0555555 is the publication, application or priority number, or occurrences of 0555555 anywhere in the text |