CompositeQuery

class biotite.database.entrez.CompositeQuery(operator, query1, query2)

Bases: Query

A representation of a composite query for the NCBI Entrez search service.

A composite query is a combination of two other queries, combined with an ‘AND’, ‘OR’ or ‘NOT’ operator.

Usually the user does not create instances of this class directly, but Query instances are combined with | (OR), & (AND) or ^ (NOT).

Parameters:

operatorstr, {“AND”, “OR”, “NOT”}

The combination operator.

query1, query2SimpleQuery

The queries to be combined.

Examples

>>> query = SimpleQuery("Escherichia coli", "Organism") & \
... SimpleQuery("90:100", "Sequence Length")
>>> print(type(query).__name__)
CompositeQuery
>>> print(query)
("Escherichia coli"[Organism]) AND (90:100[Sequence Length])

Gallery

Domains of bacterial sigma factors

Domains of bacterial sigma factors