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. 2020 Aug 6;2020:baaa056. doi: 10.1093/database/baaa056

Table 3.

Queries: different topic categories, example query terms for each topic category and the corresponding query expressions entered in PubMed

# Query topic category Query terms Query expression
1 Disease Breast cancer ‘breast cancer’
2 Cellular process DNA repair ‘DNA repair’
3 Signaling pathway MAPK/ERK pathway ‘erk pathway’ or ‘mapk pathway’ or ‘ras pathway’
4 Protein BRCA1 BRCA1
5 Chemical Progesterone Progesterone
6a Disease and process Breast cancer, DNA repair ‘breast cancer’ and ‘dna repair’
6b Autophagy, cancer autophagy and cancer
7 Disease and pathway Breast cancer, MAPK/ERK pathway ‘breast cancer’ and (‘erk pathway’ or ‘mapk pathway’ or ‘ras pathway’)
8 Disease and protein Breast cancer, BRCA1 ‘breast cancer’ and brca1
9 Disease and chemical Breast cancer, progesterone ‘breast cancer’ and progesterone
10a Process and protein DNA repair, BRCA1 ‘dna repair’ and brca1
10b ADAM17, inflammation ADAM17 and inflammation
11a Well studied EGFR EGFR
11b HER2 her2
12 New discovery copb2* copb2
13a Multiple aliases RSK90 ‘rsk 90’
13b RPS6KA1
13c RSK-1
13d S6K
14a Non-standard characters Beta catenin CTNNB1
14b ‘Beta catenin’
14c Beta-catenin
14d CTNNB
15a Different gene and Estrogen receptor ‘Estrogen Receptor 1’
15b Protein name ESR1
15c ER
16a Same gene and PTEN Pten
16b Protein name GRB2 GRB2