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Wildcard character

For Wildcard character we have terms and definitions in 2 topics. The topics are Technology and Yeast Genome.



Wildcard Character (Technology)

A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters. The asterisk (*), for example, typically represents one or more characters and the question mark (?) typically represents a single character. Wildcard characters are often used in operating systems as a means of specifying more than one file by name.


Wildcard Character (Yeast Genome)

SGD uses an asterisk "*" as a wildcard symbol. In a search, the wildcard character shows where any text can be tolerated. For example, searching for the locus "cdc*" will produce all cdc genes. Searching for the Author "Johns*" will produce all authors whose last name begins with those letters. Since the database requires exact matches to its format for searches to be productive, wise use of the "*" wildcard character is needed for many types of searches.




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