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ECOLLECT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
Source Specification
Date Constraint
SEE ALSO

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).