Sunday, December 25, 2011

NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. NCBI is directed by David Lipman, one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment progra. The NCBI houses genome sequencing data in GenBank and an index of biomedical research articles in PubMed Central and PubMed, as well as other information relevant to biotechnology. All these databases are available online through the Entrez search engine.

NCBI, Bookshelf provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. A vital node in the data-rich resource network enables users to easily browse, retrieve, and read content, and spurs discovery of related information.

The NCBI structure  is developed by the Structure Group of the NCBI Computational Biology Branch (CBB) are freely available to the public.

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