You enter search terms of interest, such as a list of names of highly regulated genes, into the Terms panel (area outlined in red below):
As you enter terms into the Terms panel, a query string will be built up in the Query Editor panel.
More than one term can be entered on a line; separate lines result in separate query string.
If multiple terms appear on the same line (a phrase), Agilent Literature Search passes the terms to the search engines without interpretation. The interpretation of the phrase is left to the semantics of the specific search engines. For example, the terms
beta catenin
when entered in the Terms panel with aliasing turned off, will be sent as
beta catenin
to the search engines. PubMed and OMIM will handle such phrases. However, USPTO requires that multi-word phrases be in quotes or be separated by boolean terms, like AND, OR, etc. We recommend using quotes around multi-word phrases, e.g.
"beta catenin"
Agilent Literature Search provides as a utility a set of organism-specific aliases, contained in the concept lexicon files. When terms are entered with aliasing turned on, the aliases are inserted into the query string in a disjunctive manner. For example, the term nfkb, when entered in the Terms panel with aliasing turned on, will generate the query string
("nf-kappa b" OR nfkb-1 OR nfkappab OR nfkb OR nf-kappab OR "nfkappa b")
Note that multi-word aliases are automatically enclosed in quotes.
If you have checked the Use Aliases control under Search Controls, then any aliases for a term (for the selected Organism) will be incorporated into the query string. Aliases are incorporated in a disjunctive (OR) manner: search engine(s) will look to match ANY of the aliases.
The figure below shows an example of term entry using aliases: