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. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D12-D17.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1071. Epub 2016 Nov 28.

Database Resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

NCBI Resource Coordinators

Database Resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

NCBI Resource Coordinators. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides a large suite of online resources for biological information and data, including the GenBank® nucleic acid sequence database and the PubMed database of citations and abstracts for published life science journals. The Entrez system provides search and retrieval operations for most of these data from 37 distinct databases. The E-utilities serve as the programming interface for the Entrez system. Augmenting many of the Web applications are custom implementations of the BLAST program optimized to search specialized data sets. New resources released in the past year include iCn3D, MutaBind, and the Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Reference Database; and resources that were updated in the past year include My Bibliography, SciENcv, the Pathogen Detection Project, Assembly, Genome, the Genome Data Viewer, BLAST and PubChem. All of these resources can be accessed through the NCBI home page at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Graphical Depiction of Selected Entrez Links. Each cell in the matrix is shaded according to the log (base 10) of the number of records in the source database (rows) that have an Entrez link to the destination database (columns). Diagonal cells represent computational links (e.g. pubmed related articles) and off-diagonal cells assert biological relationships (e.g. nuccore to taxonomy). The matrix is not diagonal because an individual record in a source database may have many links to a destination database (e.g. genome to protein).
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