Search precisely and efficiently by using the advantage of the hand-assigned publication tags that allow you to search for papers involving a specific trait, e.g. a particular optogenetic switch or a host organism.
Suggestions:
| Review only | search only for review papers | Review | 
| Exclude reviews | exclude review papers from the search | |
| Benchmarking | search only for papers that benchmark different optogenetic switches | Benchmarking | 
| Background only | search only for basic research papers on photoreceptors | Background | 
| Exclude background | exclude basic research papers on photoreceptors | |
| Multichromatic | search only for papers that combine multiple optogenetic switches within a single optogenetic system | Multichromatic | 
| Time frame | search only within a specified time frame | 
                                    color:
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                                    search by the color of a switch-inducing light
                                    color:blue
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                                Light color | 
                                    switch:
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                                    search by an optogenetic switch
                                    switch:"PhyB/PIF6"
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                                Switch name | 
                                    host:
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                                    search by the host cell line or organism of a designed optogenetic system
                                    host:"mouse in vivo"
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                                Host name | 
                                    application:
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                                    search by the type of biological application of an optogenetic system
                                    application:"cell death"
                                        note: Find The Application tool provides you with the same function, but in a guided way, together with an overview of all the available type options  | 
                                Biological application | 
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                                    exact match / multi-worded term
                                    switch:"CRY2/CIB1" finds results with CRY2/CIB1 only
                                        typing only switch:CRY2/CIB1 would find results with either CRY2 or CIB1, i.e. CRY2/CIB1, CRY2/CRY2 and CRY2olig
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                                    ()
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                                    group terms for operators
                                    switch:(AsLOV2 VVD FKF1/GI) finds publications with all specified elements
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                                    AND
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                                    logical operator "and"
                                    switch:"PhyB/PIF" AND host:"in vivo" 
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                                    OR
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                                    logical operator "or"
                                    HEK293T OR CHO-K1
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                                    -
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                                    exclude a term from the query
                                    PHYB -PIF3 show results with PHYB but exclude PIF3
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                                    *
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                                    wildcard search
                                    switch:PHY* finds results containing PhyB or PhyA -based switches
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| Search feature | Query example(s) | Query explanation | 
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| OptoBase ontology enables the search engine to recognize common synonyms | 
                                    host:HEK293T
                                    host:HEK293-T
                                    host:"HEK293 T"
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                                    Search for optogenetic systems implemented in the HEK293T cell line. All the queries return the same result.
                                     Note: multi-word terms have to be put in quotations marks, e.g. "HEK293 T", to be processed correctly.  | 
                            
| OptoBase ontology allows one to search by common denominators | 
                                    switch:phytochromes host:mouse
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                                Search for phytochrome-based optogenetic systems implemented either in mice or in any mouse cell line. | 
                                    host:neuron
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                                Search for optogetic systems implemented in any neuronal cell line, regardless of its source organism. | |
| To omit a specific tag, place a - right in front of its category | 
                                    color:blue -switch:”CRY2/CIB1”
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                                    Search for blue light-inducible systems, but omit CRY2/CIB1 switch.
                                     Note: Slash-separated terms are multi-word terms and thus have to be written in quotation marks, e.g. "CRY2/CIB1".  | 
                            
                                    transport -host:bacteria
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                                Search for publications with the word transport in their title or abstract, but omit the ones presenting optogenetic systems implemented in bacteria. | |
| OptoBase ontology enables the search engine to recognize common synonyms | 
                                    switch:("PhyB/PIF6" OR "UVR8/COP1")
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                                    Search for optogenetic systems based on either the PhyB/PIF6 or the UVR8/COP1 switch.
                                     Note: the default logical operator of the search engine is AND.  |