NCBI Organization

The NCBI Organization is an Organization that stores molecular biology information.

AKA: NCBI, National for Biotechnology Information.
Context:
- It creates public databases.
- It conducts research in computational biology.
- It develops software tools for analyzing genome data.
- It is focused on molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
- It is a division of the US National Library of Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health.
See: PubMed, Entrez, PubMed, NCBI Taxonomy, BLAST.

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

(Wheeler et al., 2009) ⇒ David L. Wheeler, Tanya Barrett, Dennis A. Benson, Stephen H. Bryant, Kathi Canese, Vyacheslav Chetvernin, Deanna M. Church, Michael DiCuccio, Ron Edgar, Scott Federhen, Lewis Y. Geer, Yuri Kapustin, Oleg Khovayko, David Landsman, David J. Lipman, Thomas L. Madden, Donna R. Maglott, James Ostell, Vadim Miller, Kim D. Pruitt, Gregory D. Schuler, Edwin Sequeira, Steven T. Sherry, Karl Sirotkin, Alexandre Souvorov, Grigory Starchenko, Roman L. Tatusov, Tatiana A. Tatusova, Lukas Wagner, and Eugene Yaschenko. “Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.” In: Nucleic Acids Research, 35.