The original intention of NCBI is to provide an information storage and processing system for molecular biologists. In addition to GenBank nucleic acid sequence database (the data resources of this database come from several major DNA databases in the world, including DDBJ DNA database in Japan, EMBL molecular biology laboratory database in Europe and several other well-known scientific research institutions), NCBI can also provide many powerful data retrieval and analysis tools.
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The resources provided by NCBI include Entrez, Entrez programming utility, my NCBI, PubMed, PubMed Central, Entrez gene, NCBI taxonomy browser, BLAST, BLAST Link (BLink), and electronic PCR with 36 functions, all of which can be found on NCBI's homepage www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, and most of them are developed by BLAST function.
The late Senator Claude Pepper realized the importance of computerized information processing methods to biomedical research, and initiated legislation to establish the National Biotechnology Information Center (NCBI) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a department of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on June 5438+0988+065438+1October 4.
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