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| Abbreviation | NCBI |
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| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 38°59′45″N 77°05′56″W / 38.9959°N 77.0989°W |
Official language | English |
Director | Stephen Sherry (since Sept 26, 2022) |
Parent organization | United States National Library of Medicine |
| Affiliations | National Institutes of Health |
| Website | ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[1][2] is part of the (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is approved and funded by the government of the United States. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland, and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by US Congressman Claude Pepper.
The NCBI houses a series of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine and is an important resource for bioinformatics tools and services. Major databases include GenBank for DNA sequences and PubMed, a bibliographic database for biomedical literature. Other databases include the NCBI Epigenomics database. All these databases are available online through the Entrez search engine. NCBI was directed by David Lipman,[2] one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment program[3] and a widely respected figure in bioinformatics.
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- ^ a b "Research Institute Posts Gene Data on Internet". The New York Times. June 26, 1997.
- ^ "Sense from Sequences: Stephen F. Altschul on Bettering BLAST". 2000. Archived from the original on October 7, 2007.