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Dropdowns

Kei Kojima edited this page Aug 21, 2020 · 1 revision

Main files that make up the dropdown BIRD search tool

dropdowns.html dropdowns.js

The dropdown tool uses a cascading dropdown menu to guide the user through primary, secondary, and tertiary terms listed in the Engineering to Biology Thesaurus (Friend 2019). Once a tertiary term is selected, it return biology synonyms based on the E2B thesaurus. These biology synonyms are used to query PeTaL’s biological ontology.

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