Database resources of the national center for biotechnology information

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) produces a variety of online information resources for biology, including the GenBank (R) nucleic acid sequence database and the PubMed (R) 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.

Automated summary

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) produces a variety of online information resources for biology, including databases for nucleic acid sequences and life science journal citations. It provides search and retrieval operations for most of these data from 35 distinct databases, with E-utilities serving as the programming interface. Several resources received significant updates in the past year.