Text Search

YMDB supports advanced Google-like searching using a powerful search engine based on the Lucene query language. YMDB text search supports boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT operations ). To match a string exactly, place quotes around your search term (for example "acetic acid" will only match the acetic followed by acid, it will not match acetic or acid alone). You can also search using "wild cards" by inserting a "*" in your search term. For example, searching for "acet*" will match all words starting with "acet". In addition, text search supports parenthetical groupings, and prepended +plus and -minus operators.

As the last 2 examples demonstrate, YMDB text query also supports a high-level search interface allowing you to narrow your search to specific metabolite fields. To use this interface, simply enter the field name followed by a semi-colon(:) and your query term. For example, to search for metabolites where the description contains "fatty acid" you would search for description:"fatty acid". You can also combine different fields in a given search, for example, to find all metabolites with acid in their name and with fatty acid in their description search for description:"fatty acid" AND name:acid.
Alternatively, queries can be generated via the advanced search bar which simplifies the process of generating complex queries. Currently, only the following metabolite and protein fields are searchable using these methods:

Metabolite Fields

Protein Fields