ACeDB help
A Caenorhabditis elegansDataBase
To consult AceDB, you must "enter" in "Search Keyword" a complete sequence
of ACEDB commands. Each individual command must be separated by ';'
ACEDB Syntax
Commands are not case sensitive and can be abbreviated. This program
maintains an internal list of current objects. You can List or Show the
content of the list.You can change the list with the simple commands: Grep,
Find, Is, Follow, Biblio. Perform complex queries with: Where
search-string', where 'search-string' follows the acedb
query syntax.
ACEDB possible commands
- Help : for further help
- ? : List of commands
- Classes : Give a list of all the visible class names
and how many objects they contain.
- Find class [name]: Creates a new current list with all objects from
class, optionally matching name
- Model class: Shows the model of the given class, useful before Follow
or Where commands
- Grep template: searches for *template* everywhere in the database
- Undo : returns the current list to its previous state
- List [template]: lists names of items in current list [matching
template]
- Show [tag] : shows the [branch tag of] objects of current
list
- Is template : keeps in the active list only those objects whose
name match the template
- Remove template : removes from the active list
only those objects whose name match the template
- Follow Tag : i.e. Tag Author gives the list of authors of the papers
of the current list
- Where query_string : performs a complex query -
for further info
- Biblio : shows the associated bibliography
WARNING
Syntax of commands is syntax of "tace" (See
query syntax).
Example :
WHERE >?Chromos* will list all chromosomes, this
command is equivalent to
FIND Chromos*
WHERE >?Author s* | a* all authors whose name begins
with s or a
WHERE >?Au* s?s* OR b*s* all authors whose name matches
s?s* or b*s*
WHERE >?Gen* myo* Clone All the cloned myosin genes
FIND Author; IS "Sulston JE"; FOLLOW Paper; FOLLOW Author
Finds all the coauthors of papers
by Sulston.