CATALOGUES INSTRUCTIONS OF
USE
1. Selection of a catalogue
2. Selection of fields
3. Free text
boxes
4. Available fields
5. Multiple queries
6. Number of items to display per chunk of
results
7.
Display of results
From the BCCM catalogues main page select one
of the four available catalogues.
To select a particular field to search, roll down a list of
fields and select a field name.
After selecting a field, type a string in the related free
text box. Do not use plurals.
In "free text boxes" you do not have neither to
combine words with reserved/special characters nor to use wildcards.
Just type a string containing either a part of word, one word or
several words separated by blank spaces and the search engine will
search for the whole string contained in
the related field(s) of the selected catalogue.
The search engine does not use
wildcards.
Species names / Plasmid
names
For bacteria, fungi and yeasts: searches for a string
contained in the species name, including genus name, species epithet
and author's name. The search engine also searches automatically for
that string in other fields like synonyms, misapplied and former
names...
For plasmids: searches for a string contained in the plasmid
name.
Examples
Searching on Penicillium retrieves
all the species names containing the string
"penicillium", such as the genus Penicillium and also the genus Eupenicillium.
Acre retrieves all the species
names containing the string "acre", such as the genus Acremoniella and also the genus Acremonium and the species Cephalosporium acremonium.
Chloridium lignicola retrieves
this species name and its varieties.
Gams retrieves all the species
names containing the string "gams", such as all the species for which the
author's name is Gams.
Accession number
Searches for a strain using a particular strain number. Do not type the acronym of the related
collection but only the strain/plasmid number.
Examples:
Typing "3137" is ok and all strain numbers
containing "3137" will be retrieved.
Typing "LMG 3137" is wrong and will lead to no
result
Other collection's
numbers
Searches for a strain using an other collection's strain
number. Here it is preferable to type the other collection's acronym
before the strain number itself. If not the search engine will
retrieve all the strains for which other collections' numbers
contain the typed number.
Example: ATCC 13460
Other fields available in the
list
When selecting one of these fields and typing a string in the
related free text box the search engine will search for this string
contained in the selected field.
All fields
When selecting "All fields" and typing a string in
the related free text box the search engine will search for that
string in all the fields of the selected catalogue.
To make a multiple query select one field in at least two
lists of fields and type a string in the related free text
boxes.
For plasmids a multiple query can also be made either by
selecting two or several lists of values (containing all possible
items for the related field) or by a combination of free text boxes
and lists of values.
The different parts of a multiple query can then be combined
with the OR or the AND operator.
The user can choose to display the results per chunk of 10,
20, 50 or 100 items.
Displaying results per chunk of 50 or 100 items may result in
a transfer of a large amount of data. Therefore for computers having
a low bandwidth connection to the Internet or for long distance
connections to the BCCM Website it is advised to display results per
chunk of 10 or 20 items. Otherwise a script time-out or connection
time-out error message may appear on the page of results.
For bacteria, fungi and
yeasts
The results will be displayed in two possible ways depending
on the fields searched.
A. When searching only on "species names" the page
of results will display successively
- 1. The list of the corresponding species names sorted
alphabetically
- 2. The list of the corresponding synonyms of species
names sorted alphabetically
- 3. The list of the corresponding former/misapplied names
of particular strains
Then when clicking on a species name the details of all
available strains for that species will be displayed.
B. When searching on other fields then "species
name" or when making a multiple query combining a search on
"species name" with a search on one or several other
fields the page of results will display the details of all
corresponding strains.
For plasmids
When making a search the page of result will display the names
of all corresponding plasmids.
When clicking on a plasmid name the details about the plasmid
will be displayed.
From the plasmid details page a link to the plasmid circular
map is inserted.
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