| ACEsearch.connect | Connects to ACE instance | 
| ACEsearch.contains | Returns whether patient with the specified patient_id exists | 
| ACEsearch.csv | Queries ACE with a CSV() command and imports the contents of the csv into a data frame | 
| ACEsearch.dump | Dumps patient from ACE to a file on disk | 
| ACEsearch.query | Queries ACE and returns a list of patient IDs | 
| ACEsearch.status | Returns the status of the ACE search engine |