Help : Basic Search Help

Contents

• Description
• Result Selection
• Common Problems

Description

Result Selection

The Basic Search is conducted through 3 simple choices: Results Type, Organism, and Data Identifier. Each choice is limited to a single value. Users wishing to query either with multiple values (organisms, categories) or by experimenter and subcategory should use the Advanced Results Search instead.

1. First, the Results Type must be chosen from the radio buttons at the top.
   • Publications - Returns curated experiment sets associated with a paper. Publications also may contain ancillary data such as supplementary websites, title, authors, and the abstract (if available). This selection may be most helpful to world users interested in the data associated with a citation.
   • My Experiment Sets (internal users only) - Returns experiment sets created by the the self-same user.
   • Experiment Sets - Returns experiment sets in which the user has view access to all the contained experiments (preserving the context in which they were created). For the world user, these are typically either single experiment sets within a publication or public-viewable sets that are unpublished.
   • Experiments - Returns all viewable experiments for the experimental category selected.
2. Second, within the lower left select box, choose the Organism of interest.
3. Third, within the lower right select box, choose the Data Identifier , which varies depending on the chosen Result Type (described in I, above).
   • The Publication identifier is a citation (First author. Year. Journal attribution.).
   • The Experiment Sets identifier is the name of the set.
   • The Experiments identifier is the category.

After selecting criteria, choose one of the following options:

• Display Data (table list): This will return a table of the experiments that fit your search criteria, including additional information about those experiments and links for viewing the experimental data. If the result type is either a experiment set or a publication, Display Data also return information specific to these larger experiment groupings.
  
• Data Retrieval and Analysis: This is the link to begin clustering the data. If the result type is either a experiment set or a publication, Data Retrieval and Analysis passes all the experiments directly to data selection prior to clustering, as it is assumed the user wants the analysis to be conducted within the context of the organization. If the result type Experiments is selected, you are then prompted to select experiments from a list of those that matching the experimental category selected. For further information on subsequent steps in clustering, see the Advanced Results Search help.

Common Problems

1. The interactive browsing of results within the Basic Search requires javascript be turned on in your browser.
   • For Netscape Navigator/Communicator:
     1. On the Edit menu, select Preferences.
     2. Under Web Browser, click Web Content.
     3. In the Active Content area, select the 'Enable scripting' check box.
   • For MS Internet Explorer:
     1. On the Edit menu, select Preferences.
     2. Click Advanced.
     3. Select 'Enable Javascript'
   
   
2. The updating of the select boxes within the Basic Search can cause display problems on some browsers. The display anomalies can often be rectified by resizing the browser window, forcing a re-draw.