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Table 3 Entrez indices used to search for records with MeSH annotations

From: Literature information in PubChem: associations between PubChem records and scientific articles

Entrez index

Description

Compound database

 

 Complete MeSH term

Retrieve compounds annotated with the MeSH term that exactly matches the query

 MESH term

Retrieve compounds annotated with MeSH terms that partially match the query. Note that MeSH entry terms (synonyms for the Medical Subject Heading term) are also indexed

 MeSH tree node

Retrieve compounds annotated with the MeSH term that match the query and those annotated with any MeSH terms beneath the node corresponding to that MeSH term. For example, “Penicillins[MeSHTreeNode]” will retrieve records annotated with MeSH term “Penicillins”and those with MeSH terms “Oxacillin”, “Cloxacillin”, and so on, which correspond to child nodes beneath the “Penicillins” node in the MeSH tree

 MeSH description

Retrieve compounds annotated with the MeSH terms whose description contains the query string

 PharmAction

Retrieve compounds annotated with the Pharmacological Action term, which are a subset of MeSH terms

 PharmActionID

Retrieve compounds annotated with the Pharmacological Action term corresponding to the numeric identifier given as a query

BioAssay database

 

 MeSH term active

Retrieve assays in which only an active substance is annotated with the MeSH term given as a query

 MeSH term tested

Retrieve assays in which any tested substance is annotated with the MeSH term given as a query

 MeSH description active

Retrieve assays in which only an active substance is annotated with the MeSH terms whose descriptions have a query string

 MeSH description tested

Retrieve assays in which any tested substance is annotated with the MeSH terms whose descriptions have a query string

 Pharm action active

Retrieve assays in which only an active substance has the Pharmacological Action annotation given as a query

 Pharm action tested

Retrieve assays in which any tested substance has the Pharmacological Action annotation given as a query