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Accessing Sample Search Options

To begin either a basic search or an advanced search for a specific sample, you have several paths to access those options:

1. From the Welcome to Public caNanoLab login Home page, you can browse publicly available nanotechnology samples before logging in . Click the Browse caNanoLab panel, click Search Samples hypertext link,;
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   Having logged After logging in, on the Welcome to caNanoLab home page, in the workflow diagram, click Search Samples. On the Manage Sample Homepage, click the Search Existing Samples link. This opens the Basic Sample Search form.click the Workflow menu option and click Search Samples;
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   Click After logging in, click the Samples caNanoLab menu option. On the Manage Sample Homepage, click the Search Existing Samples link. This opens the Basic Sample Search form
   The Manage Samples page opens.
2. To continue with a basic search, see Launching a Basic Search.a Basic Search.
3. To launch an advanced searchTo launch an advanced search, on the Manage Samples page, click Advanced Sample Search or on a Basic Sample Search form, click the Advanced Search hypertext link in the upper right of the page. For more details, see Launching an Advanced Search.

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To launch a basic search for a sample:

1. Display the Manage Samples page.

2. Click the Search Existing Samples on the Manage Samples pageContinue from step 2 described in Searching Existing Samples.

   The following table lists and describes each field. Enter text or select options as appropriate.

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   title "Other" option
   Some fields may contain the [Other] option. Click Other to enter an alternative to the selections listed. At that point, your entry is enclosed in [new entry] brackets, indicating that your entry is temporary. Once you click Submit (or Update), your entry is persisted and the brackets disappear.

   When defining search criteria, there are no "required" fields. You can add only those parameters that you consider essential to the search.

   Sample Search Options	Description
   Keywords	Enter one or more keywords by which samples could be identified in this search. caNanoLab can search for characterization or publication keywords, as well as text describing characterizations.
   Sample Name	Enter text for the name of a sample. Select Contains (for search using partial text) or Equals (for exact text search).
   Sample Point of Contact	Enter text for the name or organization point of contact. Select Contains (for search using partial text) or Equals (for exact text search).
   Composition	Nanomaterial Entity Select from the scroll list the nanoparticle category to which the nanomaterial entity targeted by the search belongs. Example: Dendrimer Functionalizing Entity Select from the scroll list the functionalizing category to which the sample targeted by the search belongs.* Monomer Polymer Quantum Dot Antibody Biopolymer Small Molecule Function Select from the drop-down list the function type category which best fits the sample targeted by the search: Imaging Function [Other] Targeting Function Therapeutic Function Transfection *You may see terms in caNanoLab that are not defined in the help glossary. These have been added by curators as [other]; they may be reviewed and defined at a later time.
   Characterization Type/Characterization	Click from the drop-down list on the left, the characterization type that applies to the sample to be searched: Physico-Chemical, In Vitro or In Vivo. Your selection determines the sub-categories that display in the Characterization field to the right. Select one or more of the items in the Characterization list.* (CTRL + click to select more than one.) Physico-Chemical Characterizations: Molecular Weight Physical State Purity Relaxivity Shape Size Solubility Surface In Vitro Characterizations:   Blood Contact Cytotoxicity Enzyme Induction Immune Cell Function Oxidative Stress Sterility  Targeting Transfection In Vivo Characterizations: Pharmacokinetics Toxicology *You may see terms in caNanoLab that are not defined in the help glossary. These have been added by curators as [other]; they may be reviewed and defined at a later time.

3. To execute the search, click the Search button.

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   title No parameters?
   Include Page No parameter search No parameter search

   
   To clear all fields and start again, click the Reset button.

   For information about the search results, see Sample Search Results.

Launching an Advanced Search

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To launch an advanced search of the samples in the caNanoLab database:

1. Display the Manage Samples page.

2. Click Advanced Sample Search on the Manage Samples On the Basic Sample Search page, opened as described in Searching Existing Samples, click the Advanced Search link in the upper right corner of the page.

   The following table lists and describes each field. Enter text or select options as appropriate.

   Advanced Search Category	Description
   Sample Criteria	Select an option in the first drop-down list. Select from the second drop-down, Contains (for search using partial text) or Equals (for exact text search). Enter complete or partial text in the text box.
   Composition Criteria	Select an option in the first drop-down list. Your selection drives the options that display in the second drop-down as well as the options or text box that displays for the rest of the category. Select from the second drop-down, Contains (for partial text search) or Equals (for exact text search). Select your options or enter appropriate text in the text box. Note: Chemical name is optional. Available terms are defined in the caNanoLab Glossary.
   Characterization Criteria	Select a Characterization Type in the first drop-down list. Your selection drives the options that display in the second drop-down as well as the options or text boxes that displays for the rest of the category. The last text box is either a boolean value or number value, depending on the third drop-down list. An optional drop-down box for units displays only if the data has a unit. Select your options or enter appropriate text in the text box(es). Available terms are defined in the caNanoLab Glossary.

3. Click Add to each set of criteria you define. As you add criteria, they display in a table above the criteria fields on the page. Click Reset to clear the fields.
4. Select the And or Or operand at the bottom of each set of criteria when you enter more than one criteria in a set. And or Or determines whether, for the set, the search finds samples that meet all of the criteria or that meet any one of the criteria.
5. Select the And or Or operand at the bottom of the page that determines whether the search finds samples that meet only all of the criteria or that meet any one of the criteria.
6. To execute the search, click the Search button.
   To clear all fields and start again, click the Reset button.

7. To execute the search, click the Search button.

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1. For information about the search results, see Sample Search Results.

Sample Search Results

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1. Perform a sample search.
2. Find the sample that you want to bookmark and click the Add to Favorites link in the first column of the Sample Search Results row.
   The Added to Favorites message appears in the results row.
3. Click the +Add to Favorites option in the menu bar, and the bookmarked sample will be listed under My Samples.

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