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Table 1 Search types

From: VAIV bio-discovery service using transformer model and retrieval augmented generation

Query type

Example

(1) Basic query search (operator/filter)

• Search for documents with calcium and anoxia in the title

→ (calcium[Title]) AND (anoxia[Title]) [PubMed]

(2)Entity or relation search

• What diseases co-occur most with calcium in the document collection? I would like to search for documents with calcium and related diseases

• What diseases are associated with calcium in the papers containing the MeSH term ‘child’?

• What gene/proteins have the “ACTIVATOR” interaction with calcium? List them by frequency order and show the documents

(3) Natural language query search

• What methods can be used for detecting beta thalassemias?

• What chemical compounds inhibit the activation of BRCA1?