ENTREZ-PHRASE-SEARCH(1)

💖 ENTREZ-PHRASE-SEARCH 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual ✨ this one's about entrez-phrase-search, and before we even start I gotta tell you the vibe check is... it's giving retired 💀

🌸 NAME 🌸

entrez-phrase-search — search NCBI Entrez for phrases (and yes, she is DEPRECATED 🪦)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

entrez-phrase-search [-help] [-count[s]] [-string] [-db name]
[-database name] [-field name] query

look at her. so simple. so doomed 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

⚠️ bestie read this first: entrez-phrase-search will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct. she's leaving the group chat. 😭

so what do you do instead? two options, pick your fighter:

1. just run esearch normally, like a regular person 💅
2. establish a local archive via archive-pubmed and then search it via phrase-search 🗂️

okay now the actual tea ☕ — entrez-phrase-search is an edirect(1) esearch(1) wrapper script. it searches an NCBI Entrez database for a phrase instead of a bunch of separate little keywords. how? it's lowkey genius actually:

• it breaks your query up into pairs of adjacent words (and it skips the connecting words like "the", because they're not doing anything, they're just standing there 🧍)
• then it intersects searches for the word pairs that show up reasonably often 🔥

that's it. that's the whole trick. iconic behavior honestly 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -help — print usage information. the classic cry for help 🆘
• -count[s] — just print counts for the individual word pairs. no fancy final query, just numbers, just vibes 🔢
• -db name (-database name) — search the specified Entrez database (default: pubmed). pick your database bestie 🗄️
• -field name — search the specified field (default: TIAB, titles + abstracts). so like, where in the record are we looking 👀
• query — the phrase to search for. (Quotes optional.) say what you mean, the quotes are not mandatory 💬

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

edirect(1), esearch(1), filter-stop-words(1), phrase-search(1)

go read those, they're the friend group 🫂

and that's a wrap bestie!! this page came to you from NCBI and it's dated 2021-03-07 — so yeah, she's a little vintage, a little deprecated, but still serving ✨ mwah 💅💖🎀