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. 2022 Jan 7;50(D1):D20-D26.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab1112.

Database resources of the national center for biotechnology information

Eric W Sayers  1 , Evan E Bolton  1 , J Rodney Brister  1 , Kathi Canese  1 , Jessica Chan  1 , Donald C Comeau  1 , Ryan Connor  1 , Kathryn Funk  1 , Chris Kelly  1 , Sunghwan Kim  1 , Tom Madej  1 , Aron Marchler-Bauer  1 , Christopher Lanczycki  1 , Stacy Lathrop  1 , Zhiyong Lu  1 , Francoise Thibaud-Nissen  1 , Terence Murphy  1 , Lon Phan  1 , Yuri Skripchenko  1 , Tony Tse  1 , Jiyao Wang  1 , Rebecca Williams  1 , Barton W Trawick  1 , Kim D Pruitt  1 , Stephen T Sherry  1
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Database resources of the national center for biotechnology information

Eric W Sayers et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) produces a variety of online information resources for biology, including the GenBank® nucleic acid sequence database and the PubMed® database of citations and abstracts published in life science journals. NCBI provides search and retrieval operations for most of these data from 35 distinct databases. The E-utilities serve as the programming interface for the most of these databases. Resources receiving significant updates in the past year include PubMed, PMC, Bookshelf, RefSeq, SRA, Virus, dbSNP, dbVar, ClinicalTrials.gov, MMDB, iCn3D and PubChem. These resources can be accessed through the NCBI home page at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

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Figure 1.
Annual growth rates of the number of records in each NCBI database as of 4 September 2021.
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