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. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D29-D38.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1032.

Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2023

Eric W Sayers  1 , Evan E Bolton  1 , J Rodney Brister  1 , Kathi Canese  1 , Jessica Chan  1 , Donald C Comeau  1 , Catherine M Farrell  1 , Michael Feldgarden  1 , Anna M Fine  1 , Kathryn Funk  1 , Eneida Hatcher  1 , Sivakumar Kannan  1 , Christopher Kelly  1 , Sunghwan Kim  1 , William Klimke  1 , Melissa J Landrum  1 , Stacy Lathrop  1 , Zhiyong Lu  1 , Thomas L Madden  1 , Adriana Malheiro  1 , Aron Marchler-Bauer  1 , Terence D Murphy  1 , Lon Phan  1 , Shashikant Pujar  1 , Sanjida H Rangwala  1 , Valerie A Schneider  1 , Tony Tse  1 , Jiyao Wang  1 , Jian Ye  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 in 2023

Eric W Sayers et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides 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 most of these databases. New resources include the Comparative Genome Resource (CGR) and the BLAST ClusteredNR database. Resources receiving significant updates in the past year include PubMed, PMC, Bookshelf, IgBLAST, GDV, RefSeq, NCBI Virus, GenBank type assemblies, iCn3D, ClinVar, GTR, dbGaP, ALFA, ClinicalTrials.gov, Pathogen Detection, antimicrobial resistance resources, 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.
Figure 1.
Annual growth rates of the number of records in each NCBI database as of 12 August 2022.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
GDV visualization of a region of Chromosome 1 from the Prunus armeniaca genome assembly ASM2042406v1 showing a track of gene annotations provided by the GenBank submitter.
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