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. 2024 Jan 5;52(D1):D33-D43.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1044.

Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Eric W Sayers  1 , Jeff Beck  1 , Evan E Bolton  1 , J Rodney Brister  1 , Jessica Chan  1 , Donald C Comeau  1 , Ryan Connor  1 , Michael DiCuccio  1 , Catherine M Farrell  1 , Michael Feldgarden  1 , Anna M Fine  1 , Kathryn Funk  1 , Eneida Hatcher  1 , Marilu Hoeppner  1 , Megan Kane  1 , Sivakumar Kannan  1 , Kenneth S Katz  1 , Christopher Kelly  1 , William Klimke  1 , Sunghwan Kim  1 , Avi Kimchi  1 , Melissa Landrum  1 , Stacy Lathrop  1 , Zhiyong Lu  1 , Adriana Malheiro  1 , Aron Marchler-Bauer  1 , Terence D Murphy  1 , Lon Phan  1 , Arjun B Prasad  1 , Shashikant Pujar  1 , Amanda Sawyer  1 , Erin Schmieder  1 , Valerie A Schneider  1 , Conrad L Schoch  1 , Shobha Sharma  1 , Françoise Thibaud-Nissen  1 , Barton W Trawick  1 , Thilakam Venkatapathi  1 , Jiyao Wang  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) 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. Resources receiving significant updates in the past year include PubMed, PMC, Bookshelf, SciENcv, the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR), NCBI Virus, SRA, RefSeq, foreign contamination screening tools, Taxonomy, iCn3D, ClinVar, GTR, MedGen, dbSNP, 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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Graphical Abstract
Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Annual growth rates of the number of records in each NCBI database as of 21 August 2023.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Selected NCBI databases and tools clustered into three broad categories as discussed in the text.
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