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Problem

How to use the elink command: Look up precomputed neighbors within a database, or find associated records in other databases. It is part of the edirect package. More information: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179288/>.

Solution

elink — Look up precomputed neighbors within a database, or find associated records in other databases. It is part of the edirect package. More information: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179288/>.

Search pubmed then find related sequences:

esearch -db pubmed -query "{{selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor}}" | elink -target nuccore

Search nucleotide then find related biosamples:

esearch -db nuccore -query "{{insulin [PROT] AND rodents [ORGN]}}" | elink -target biosample

Code Snippets

Search pubmed then find related sequences

esearch -db pubmed -query "{{selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor}}" | elink -target nuccore

Search nucleotide then find related biosamples

esearch -db nuccore -query "{{insulin [PROT] AND rodents [ORGN]}}" | elink -target biosample

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