Figure 4

Example of a template query. The template 'All pairs of interacting proteins in organism1 → Orthologues in organism2' is shown. All template queries have a 'short name' and a longer description. The short name aids visual scanning of available templates. Template queries consist of a form, in which the user is able to adjust the default constraints on classes and attributes. Each box, or variable, can be constrained to either a single value or, if appropriate, to a list of objects (if the user has lists of the appropriate type stored in their history). The buttons 'Show Results' and 'Edit Query' provide the user with the choice of either viewing the results page, or viewing the query in the query builder, where it may be modified.