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The standalone search page expands the home search bar into a focused workspace for iterating on query text and scanning autocomplete hits.

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Autocomplete Service

  • Queries debounce for 500 ms before calling the catalog autocomplete API, which fans out across entities (genes, proteins, variants, diseases, PMIDs, ontology terms, drugs, transcripts, studies, lexical commands).
  • Results stream in batches and display the entity-specific icon, preferred term, and type label. Selecting a row navigates straight to the resolved route; relative URIs are normalised to /[node_id].
  • Infinite scrolling requests subsequent pages when the sentinel element enters view, so long runs of hits (e.g., large ontology vocabularies) do not require manual pagination.

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Interaction Details

  • The same heuristics used on the home page detect rsIDs (in any mix of upper or lower case), HGNC gene IDs, SPDI strings, PMIDs, and coordinate searches so users can paste identifiers without extra syntax.
  • Error states surface the message returned by the autocomplete API. Skeleton loaders keep the layout stable while additional pages fetch.
  • The input state syncs to the URL (/search?q=), enabling sharing of tightly scoped queries inside analysis or QA conversations.
These affordances give curators a latency-tuned interface for testing query phrasing, reviewing near matches, and jumping into the linked node, disease, or literature pages that capture the underlying biology.