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. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D5-15.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn741. Epub 2008 Oct 21.

Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Eric W Sayers  1 , Tanya Barrett, Dennis A Benson, Stephen H Bryant, Kathi Canese, Vyacheslav Chetvernin, Deanna M Church, Michael DiCuccio, Ron Edgar, Scott Federhen, Michael Feolo, Lewis Y Geer, Wolfgang Helmberg, Yuri Kapustin, David Landsman, David J Lipman, Thomas L Madden, Donna R Maglott, Vadim Miller, Ilene Mizrachi, James Ostell, Kim D Pruitt, Gregory D Schuler, Edwin Sequeira, Stephen T Sherry, Martin Shumway, Karl Sirotkin, Alexandre Souvorov, Grigory Starchenko, Tatiana A Tatusova, Lukas Wagner, Eugene Yaschenko, Jian Ye
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Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Eric W Sayers et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan.

Erratum in

  • Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 May;37(9):3124

Abstract

In addition to maintaining the GenBank nucleic acid sequence database, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides analysis and retrieval resources for the data in GenBank and other biological data made available through the NCBI web site. NCBI resources include Entrez, the Entrez Programming Utilities, MyNCBI, PubMed, PubMed Central, Entrez Gene, the NCBI Taxonomy Browser, BLAST, BLAST Link (BLink), Electronic PCR, OrfFinder, Spidey, Splign, RefSeq, UniGene, HomoloGene, ProtEST, dbMHC, dbSNP, Cancer Chromosomes, Entrez Genomes and related tools, the Map Viewer, Model Maker, Evidence Viewer, Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs), Retroviral Genotyping Tools, HIV-1/Human Protein Interaction Database, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Entrez Probe, GENSAT, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA), the Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB), the Conserved Domain Database (CDD), the Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool (CDART) and the PubChem suite of small molecule databases. Augmenting many of the web applications is custom implementation of the BLAST program optimized to search specialized data sets. All of the resources can be accessed through the NCBI home page at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

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