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Official account of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. NCBI serves as an international resource for the scientific research community - providing access to public databases and software tools for analyzing biological data, as well as performing research in computational biology. The NCBI was established in 1988 by an act of the United States Congress as division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, with a mission to find new approaches to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of biological data in order to facilitate the understanding of genes and their role in health and disease. The NCBI is made up of multidisciplinary research and development teams composed of molecular biologists, biochemists, structural biologists, clinicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists who: Archive: Gather scientific and medical research data from around the globe • Serve as the largest repository of the world’s primary biological research data • Produce curated datasets to enhance the value and usability of the primary data Access: Develop systems for discovering and integrating scientific and medical data • Create search tools and data cross-referencing mechanisms • Display and enable download of information from the world's largest collection of biological data Advance: Promote understanding of processes that effect health and disease • Perform cutting-edge research in computational biology • Design and build algorithms, programs and systems for analysis of biological data • Provide support and training through a varied and vigorous outreach program .
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- Biotechnology
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Updates
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Happy National #DNADay24! Today, the anniversary of the discovery of the double helix, is a great day to download genome data packages from NCBI Datasets. Check it out: https://ow.ly/kcLR50Ro7Tc
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Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection! This collection includes 19,328 genomes and 413 species are represented for the first time. Learn more: https://ow.ly/iY5M50Ro7BO
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Download Hidden Markov models (HMMs) release 15.0! This release contains 16,667 HMMs, including 279 new HMMs since release 14.0. Learn more: https://ow.ly/4Os050Rmrjs
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Happy #WorldLaboratoryDay! Do you work in a lab that generates nucleotide sequence data? Submit your data to NCBI! ➡️ https://ow.ly/XOA850R6S1l
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We are excited to announce cleaner nucleotide (nt) and protein (nr) BLAST databases with more accurate results! We now use NCBI quality assurance tools to systematically remove misleading sequences. Learn more: https://ow.ly/bPCa50RlpBp #NCBICGR
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Are you attending the Biology of Genomes meeting, May 7-11, 2024? Visit Nuala O'Leary, PhD, at her poster session on May 7th at 7:30 pm ET and learn more about NCBI Datasets! More info: https://ow.ly/L25h50RhvFY #NCBICGR #BoG24
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Reminder! Effective June 2024, NCBI Datasets will deprecate older API and CLI versions. Learn more: https://ow.ly/GahK50RgjgA
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Check out the newly released Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.21! This version contains 1,174 new or updated NCBI-curated domains. Learn more: https://ow.ly/wVYY50Rj79x #NCBICGR
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Help researchers learn more about diseases like cancer by submitting your somatic variation data to ClinVar! Try out our new somatic spreadsheet template and submit today: https://ow.ly/fi5b50QSQeU