For this tutorial, open the MGI home page in a new window and locate Quick Search at the top center of the page. Scroll down this page for further instructions.

1. Type MGI:2687297, P32921, 17222948 into the text box.

2. Click Quick Search.

3. The Quick Search Results rank genome features, vocabulary terms, and other results by relevance.

4. Click Get More Data for genome features 1 through 2 to retrieve associated data such as gene function, phenotype, allele or disease data. This button leads to the MGI Batch Query, a tool to retrieve data about many genes in MGI simultaneously.

5. Select the radio button next to Human Disease (OMIM) to retrieve human diseases associated with mouse genes Wars and Pax3.
6. Click Search Again.

1. Type vitamin D binding into the text box.
2. Click Quick Search.

3. The Quick Search Results rank genome features, vocabulary terms, and other results containing vitamin D binding by relevance to this phrase, and to any individual word in this phrase.

1. Type double quotes around the phrase "vitamin D." Double quotes require search results in which the entire phrase "vitamin D" appears exactly.
2. Click Search Again.

3. The Quick Search Results are similar to those above. However, the lower scoring genome features and vocabulary terms are different and are quite specifically associated with vitamin D. For example, Vdr, the vitamin D receptor, now ranks among the top 10 genome features. And vocabulary terms response to vitamin D and vitamin D biosynthetic process now rank among the top 10 instead of more general terms such as vitamin binding.

4. Click the link to and 9 more... corresponding to gene Gc in the Best Match column.

5. The best matches for "vitamin D" binding for gene Gc include synonyms, orthologs, functions, protein families and domains containing vitamin D and binding together, separately, or having bind as a root word.

1. Type thalam* into the text box.
2. Click Quick Search.

3. The Quick Search Results identify genes and expression results for the thalamus, dorsal thalamus, and medial thalamic group. Each of these terms or phrases contains the prefix thalam. Quick Search will not identify terms containing thalam, such as hypothalamus or epithalamus. At present, the wildcard character * supports prefix searches only, and can only be used at the end of a search entry. For example, *thalam will not find the terms hypothalamus or epithalamus. These and related terms can be found using hypothal* or epithal*.

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For additional examples, see Frequently Asked Questions.

Also see Using the Quick Search Tool for more information.