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RGD Definition

"Much of the data that appears on the website comes from the scientific literature. The articles curated for information can be retrieved from the database using the reference query page or links on the object page. For each reference, information includes the title, abstract, and citation. References describing data obtained in bulk from various researchers and other sources are also included."

RGD has two types of references - Curated and Uncurated. The curation staff has manually reviewed curated references and information relevant to the database has been extracted into the database. Uncurated references are known to contain relevant data but have not yet been manually reviewed. These often take the form of PubMed links listed in the external database links section of a data report (e.g. a gene report).

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Finding Reference information

Using the Reference Search Form

Quick Guide

  1. References can be searched by any word or word fragment in the title or abstract, by the author's last name, and/or by year of publication
  2. Multiple words should be joined by 'AND'; otherwise they will be searched as a phrase. Searches are case insensitive
  3. The reference report page contains the citation and abstract

Below is a more detailed explanation of each element of the search form, which will allow you greater flexibility to refine your searches.

RGD: References Query Form Help Keywords in title or citation

Enter a keyword(s) to search the reference data stored within RGD. Multiple words can be joined by 'and' otherwise they are considered a phrase and searched as a whole. Wildcard characters are not accepted in this field

Author Surname

Search for references containing a particular author's surname. Note that wildcard characters are not accepted in this field

Year

Search references published in a particular year.

Results ordered by

  • Year - sorts returned in chronological order
  • Citation - sorts returned results alphabetically by citation (i.e. Author surname)
  • Title - sorts returned results alphabetically by title.
 

 

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Related Information/Links

The reference report allows you to link out to curated references from any of the listed authors on a paper and to a list of the data objects that were curated from each paper (each hyperlinked to the appropriate report). Links are provided to PubMed and Medline and also to the full text article online where available (access to the full text is dependent on your personal or institutional subscription)

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The Reference Report

The following fields are present on the Reference report:

RGD: Reference Report Help

Title

The Title of the research article

Authors

The author list for the publication. Each name is hyperlinked to provide a list of those authors paper that are available in RGD.

Citation

The citation for this reference showing authors, journal, year, volume(issue) and pages, eg. Gosele C, etal., Genomics 2000 Nov 1;69(3):287-94

Curation Status

The current stage of this paper in the RGD curation process. Each paper starts as 'not curated', moves to 'in progress' and then 'completed'. Issues such as nomenclature questions about genes or QTLs and the acquisition of bulk datasets associated with an article often affect an article's progress through this pipeline.

Abstract

The abstract for this paper. This information is downloaded from PubMed and not every article contains an abstract.

Show data curated from this reference

Returns a list of data objects that have been curated from this reference.

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