esearch
Perform a new Entrez search using terms in indexed fields.
It is part of the edirect package.
More information: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179288/.
- Search the pubmed database for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor:
esearch -db pubmed -query "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor"
- Search the protein database using a query and regexp:
esearch -db protein -query 'Escherichia*'
- Search the nucleotide database for sequences whose metadata contain insulin and rodents:
esearch -db nuccore -query "insulin [PROT] AND rodents [ORGN]"
- Display [h]elp:
esearch -h