Scientists search projects using own search terms via Text Search in Brain Knowledge Platform’s Data Catalog

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The Data Catalog’s new Text Search empowers scientists to search for relevant resources with their own search terms.

Text search in Data Catalog

Access the Data Catalog’s text search field at https://knowledge.brain-map.org/data

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  1. Type in your search term
    OPTIONAL: Use AND or OR operators to further refine relationships between keywords, e.g. “cortex AND mouse”
  2. Hit enter or the loupe icon image to trigger the search
  3. The search results load
  4. Clear the text search by clicking the image icon and repeat

Text Search complements the pre-existing faceted search interface:

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Scientists can use both for complementary search approaches:

  1. Run a general text search, then refine the results via faceted search.
  2. Constraint the search space via faceted search, then run a text search to go deeper.

Text search on BKP landing page

A similar text search field has been added to https://knowledge.brain-map.org/
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Text search on program pages

A similar text search field has been added to program pages, e.g. for BICAN: https://knowledge.brain-map.org/program/bican
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Note: In this case, the search is pre-constrained to projects that match the program being viewed, e.g. “search in the 5 BICAN projects via text search”