Agilent Literature Search refines the query based on the context to enable the search engines to filter the potentially large corpus of search results and quickly identify information of interest to you. A context is a set of concepts and terms that the user is interested in. For example, it can be a list of genes or proteins in a pathway, a list of experimental procedures, a list of disease conditions, a list of drugs, a list of specific interactions of interest, etc.
You can enter concepts of interest, such as a name of a disease, into the Context panel (area outlined in red below):
As you enter concepts into the Context panel, if you have checked the Use Context control under Search Controls, then any context words you have entered will be incorporated into the query string being built up in the Query Editor panel
If multiple context words appear on the same line in the Context panel, they will sent as is to the search engines. For example, the query string "beta-catenin", when combined with the following contents of Context panel
melanoma cancer
results in the query string
("beta catenin") AND melanoma cancer
Note that the above query will not work in USPTO because of the multi-word term. We recommend that all multi-word context lines be either enclosed in quotes or separated by boolean terms, such as AND, OR, etc. For example, the Context panel could contain
melanoma AND cancer
resulting in the query string
("beta catenin") AND melanoma AND cancer
The figure below shows an example of two term entries using aliases and two Context words, melanoma and cancer, resulting in two query strings being built up.
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