How does the Guided Search work?
This feature is used when the user is not sure of the term needed to search Investigator Portal or when a user wants to conduct a more specific search. There are conreolled vocabularies for 6 of the sections in the guided search. The user can open a controlled vocabulary and open the ‘+ sign’ hierarchies to find the required search term or alternatively input the first few letters into the ‘Lookup’ box and click enter. The system then open the hieracrchy at the first point at which those letters are found and the user should use ‘Next>’ to move on to the term required. Where more than one term is selected within one field, Investigator Portal uses the boolean ‘OR’ operator but this can be manually changed to ‘AND’ by the user. The user can restrict the search by knowledge area, e.g. searching EGFR as a genomic record rather than a biomarker or therapeutic target.
