Database search
http://edamontology.org/operation_2421
Search a database (or other data resource) with a supplied query and retrieve entries (or parts of entries) that are similar to the query.
Synonyms: Search
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Subsets
operations, edam
Created in
beta12orEarlier
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Typically the query is compared to each entry and high scoring matches (hits) are returned. For example, a BLAST search of a sequence database.