Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Abstract

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides online information resources for biology, including the GenBank®nucleicãcid sequence databaseãnd the PubMed®database of citationsãndãbstracts published in life science journals. NCBI provides searchãnd retrie vãl operations for most of these data from 35 distinct databases. The E-utilities serveãs 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, Tax onom y , iCn3D, ClinVar , GTR, MedGen, dbSNP, ALFA, ClinicalTrials.gov, Pathogen Detection,ãntimicrobial resistance resources,ãnd P ubChem. T hese resources can beãccessed through the NCBI home pageãt https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov .