Re: [Treebase-devel] simpler search interface

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

I agree that the search results could be sexed up, but that's a separate
issue.


> - it doesn't seem to recognise DOIs, e.g. 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.011
>

No, this is just a proof of concept. It only distinguishes between treebase
identifiers and "other words", to do that we would just need to expand
inferType() to include 'doi' as a return value, and create another mapping
from 'doi' to the underlying query predicate (which should be prism.doi) in
the predicates map.


> -how about interpreting numbers as study ids, NCBI tax ids, or PubMed ids
>

All numbers are now treated as identifiers. In this prototype for study
searches that's only tb.identifier.study but on the taxon search page we
would map from 'id' to 'tb.identifier.ubio' and/or 'tb.identifier.ncbi'. We
don't store PubMed ids.


> -doe sit support "standard" identifier abbreviations, "doi:", "pmid:",
> etc.?
>

Not yet, but it would be easy.


> Is there a full text index underlying the search (e.g., something like
> Solr or Elastic search)? That would make the search more powerful.
>

No.


> On 7 Feb 2012, at 09:53, Rutger Vos wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> here's a prototype of a simplified search interface:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4180059/treebase/query.html
>
> It gives users the ability to just type any words, and the javascript
> infers whether the terms are identifiers or something else. It then turns
> the terms into a PhyloWS query and calls that. It would need some
> configuration to use the right predicates for each search page, but it
> would simplify things for users, and if power users want to see (and edit)
> the underlying query they can still do so.
>
> Rutger
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