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4.17 FILTER

Option FILTER

Function Masks query with DUST for nucleotides or SEG for proteins
Input format string
Default L
Example To turn off low complexity filter, use '&FILTER=off&'

Note: Set to 'off' if not specified within the URL. Letters, other than off or no, will turn filtering on. Multiple instances of this tag are concatenated and passed to the engine as 'filter_string'. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/staff/tao/URLAPI/new/URLAPI_node82.html.



Tao Tao 2006-12-04