elink(1)

look up related NCBI Entrez records

Section 1 ncbi-entrez-direct bookworm source

Description

ELINK

NAME

elink - look up related NCBI Entrez records

SYNOPSIS

elink [-help] [-related] [-target dbname] [-name name] [-db name] [-id ID(s)] [-input filename] [-cmd command] [-cited] [-cites]

DESCRIPTION

elink follows links between Entrez databases, either extending an existing Entrez Direct pipeline or honoring explicit -db and -id (or -input) options.

OPTIONS

Destination Database

-related

Look up neighbors in the same database.

-target dbname

Follow links to another database.

-name name

Follow an explicit link name such as pubmed_protein_refseq, pubmed_pubmed_citedin, or pubmed_pubmed_refs.

Direct Record Selection

-db name

Entrez database name for immediate lookups.

-id ID(s)

Unique identifier(s) for immediate lookups.

-input filename

Read identifer(s) from file instead of standard input.

Advanced Control

-cmd command

Command type (returns eLinkResult XML):

history

Save results in Entrez history server

neighbor

Neighbors or links

neighbor_score

Neighbors with computed similarity scores

	acheck		All links available
	ncheck		Existence of neighbors
	lcheck		Existence of external links (LinkOuts)
	llinks		Non-library LinkOut providers

llinkslib (Perl) or llibs (shell)

All LinkOut providers

prlinks

Primary LinkOut provider.

PubMed Citation Lookup

-cited

References to this paper.

-cites

Publication reference list.

-cited and -cites use the NIH Open Citation Collection dataset (see PMID 31600197) to follow reference links.

Miscellaneous Arguments

-help

Print usage information.