Table 1
The Number of Entries Retrieved from the Three Databases Using Different Search Terms
| Search Terms | PDB | SWISSPROT | GEO |
| Broad search | |||
| brain or “central nervous system” | 418 | 33781 | 489 |
| Focused searches | |||
| “spinal cord” | 2/0 | 12/0 | 99/54 |
| cerebellum | 24/0 | 3/0 | 84/65 |
| neuron | 393/62 | 109/25 | 144/62 |
| axons | 13/3 | 8/0 | 70/18 |
| hormones | 76/0 | 11/9 | 15/14 |
| glia | 71/1 | 12/0 | 27/13 |
| neurotransmission | 15/0 | 123/10 | 19/12 |
| synapse | 29/0 | 135/8 | 13/3 |
| forebrain | 0/0 | 8/0 | 35/26 |
| mesencephalon | 2/0 | 0/0 | 16/10 |
| myelencephalon | 2/0 | 2/0 | 21/14 |
| dopaminergic | 0/0 | 67/1 | 0/0 |
| “olfactory receptor” | 2/0 | 488/0 | 2/1 |
| motor | 24/0 | 5/4 | 44/25 |
| photoreceptor | 0/0 | 0/0 | 40/24 |
| granule cell | 0/0 | 0/0 | 14/11 |
| purkinje | 0/0 | 0/0 | 10/4 |
| other (54 more keywords) | 51/0 | 45/12 | 485/215 |
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The numbers after the slash indicate how many of the entries retrieved for each focused search were also retrieved by the broad search (brain or “central nervous system”).
