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Example sentences for: querying

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A breast cancer-associated gene list was derived by querying the Affymetrix EASI ®Database U95A, with 'breast' as a search term.
Storing and querying the annotation results: the Gadfly database
After querying others, I learned only that the word was used in the U. S. Navy during the 1950s.
Relevant literature was retrieved for each gene by querying Medline for entries containing gene names or abbreviations or aliases.
Training sets were obtained by querying the GenBank database using the Entrez retrieval tool [ 29, 30, 31].