Find Articles in EMBASE Using a GenBank Accession Number?

TOPIC: EMBASE® (File 72,73), the online equivalent of Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals, is the most current biomedical database available today. Articles appear online, on average, within two weeks of receipt of the original journal. Each record is indexed by medical research specialists who assign terms and codes in accordance with EMTREE, a highly developed classification schedule and controlled vocabulary. With more than 580,000 abstracts and citations added annually, EMBASE provides Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), the ability to link from specific records to the fulltext articles with graphs, charts and pictures. Clicking a DOI may take you directly to the fulltext of the document or to a professional society website that restricts display to members only or to the publisher’s website, where you may purchase the complete article. In addition, some records present URLs that link directly to the fulltext. For searchers with Dialog eLinks enabled, EMBASE displays links to their electronic journal subscriptions right from their search results.

In EMBASE, biotechnology-related articles contain molecular sequence numbers. These sequence numbers, residing in the Molecular Sequence Number field (SQ=), identify accession numbers found in various databanks and repositories. Searchers looking for information on novel therapeutics and related topics use this field with ease. EMBASE molecular sequence number indexing includes:

Nucleotide sequence numbers:

• GenBank
• EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
• DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan)

Protein sequence numbers:

• SWISSPROT
• PIR (Protein Identification Resource)

This example involves a query to find articles that contain the GenBank accession number U88880. This is all the information you have. You think the patron is looking for an article about the treatment of asthma epidemiology.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 72
VISUAL EXPAND SQ=U88880
Check the appropriate entry and click Select
TYPE S1/6/1
TYPE S1/9/1

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN File 72 to search EMBASE from 1993 to the present. Note that File 73 contains records from 1974 to the present. 2. VISUAL EXPAND the GenBank sequence number using the prefix SQ=. 3. Check the box to the left of the appropriate sequence number and click the SELECT button.
4. Narrow results by combining Search Set 1 (S1) with another concept (S S1 and asthma?).
5. TYPE out the result in Format 9 for the full citation and abstract. Notice the hyperlink for Swets on this eLink enabled account. This record contains both an Item Identifier (DOI) and a URL that launches the fulltext.
Note the GenBank number we used in our search.

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