Combining structure search with text search

Here a search for all quinolines with antibacterial activity is performed.

Fig. 5: A search combining a structure search with a text field search.

Note that the diagram is connected to the search term via the Boolean operator 'AND'. Using Boolean operators helps you to find exact information faster and more easily by focusing a search in the following ways:

• AND retrieves only those records that contain both items, thus helping to make a search more specific.

• NOT also serves to narrow a search by retrieving records containing only the first item, and excluding records containing the second term.

• OR retrieves records containing either or both of the items, and thus broadens a search.

Using Boolean operators effectively will greatly improve your search results, by making the results more specific.