Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Issue Volume 49:Issue D1(2021) (23rd October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sayers, Eric W; Beck, Jeffrey; Bolton, Evan E; Bourexis, Devon; Brister, James R; Canese, Kathi; Comeau, Donald C; Funk, Kathryn; Kim, Sunghwan; Klimke, William; Marchler-Bauer, Aron; Landrum, Melissa; Lathrop, Stacy; Lu, Zhiyong; Madden, Thomas L; O'Leary, Nuala; Phan, Lon; Rangwala, Sanjida H; Schneider, Valerie A; Skripchenko, Yuri; Wang, Jiyao; Ye, Jian; Trawick, Barton W; Pruitt, Kim D; Sherry, Stephen T
• Is Part Of: Nucleic acids research. Volume 49:Issue D1(2021)
• Page Start: D10
• Page End: D17
• Publication Date: 2020-10-23
• Subjects: Nucleic acids -- Periodicals; Molecular biology -- Periodicals; 572.805
• DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa892
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-1048

Abstract

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 published in life science journals. The Entrez system provides search and retrieval operations for most of these data from 34 distinct databases. The E-utilities serve as the programming interface for the Entrez system. Custom implementations of the BLAST program provide sequence-based searching of many specialized datasets. New resources released in the past year include a new PubMed interface and NCBI datasets. Additional resources that were updated in the past year include PMC, Bookshelf, Genome Data Viewer, SRA, ClinVar, dbSNP, dbVar, Pathogen Detection, BLAST, Primer-BLAST, IgBLAST, iCn3D and PubChem. All of these resources can be accessed through the NCBI home page at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov .