References

1. The Reference Search page is accessed by mousing over ‘Data’ in the top black banner and clicking ‘References’ in the pull-down menu, or clicking ‘Data’ to go to the ‘RGD Data’ page and clicking ‘REFERENCES’ (not shown).

2. 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 coupled with another term. Searches are case insensitive. Example searches are provided above the text entry box. Asterisks serve as wild cards.

3. The search result contains a list of references containing the search term(s) (highlighted in yellow).
 
 
4. For each reference, displayed are the Title, Citation, Authors, RGD ID and Matched By (all linked to the reference report page – see below).
 
 
5. The reference list can be exported using the ‘Excel Download’. Select the required references by clicking the check boxes on the left.

6. The ‘General’ tab contains most of the basic information about the reference, including authors, citation, RGD ID, Pubmed ID, and links to PubMed (‘View article at PubMed’) and DOI (‘Full-text’ link).

7. The ‘Annotation’ section contains information about ‘Disease Annotations’, ‘Phenotype Annotations’ or ‘Objects Annotated’ (such as genes, strains, QTLs) if the reference is curated.

8. The Disease/Phenotype annotations annotated to the reference are shown with their evidence codes. Click on them to view their linked annotation report pages (see below).

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9. The “View as List” tab shows the annotations as a list and is the default selection. It shows information about evidence code and citation. It also shows the number of annotations, objects annotated to the term and, papers annotated to the object (QTL in this case). Curation notes, if present (not shown in this) give additional information about the annotation.
 
 

10. Click on the ‘View As Table’ tab to view the information in a tabular format. Information about the Term, Definition and the Definition Source(s) is also shown.