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Literature
PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Example searches
Search for titles, citations, identifiers and moreLiterature databases
Books and reports
Ontology used for PubMed indexing
Books, journals and more in the NLM Collections
Scientific and medical abstracts/citations
Full-text journal articles
Data
Genes
Gene sequences and annotations used as references for the study of orthologs structure, expression, and evolution
Collected information about gene loci
Functional genomics studies
Gene expression and molecular abundance profiles
Homologous genes sets for selected organisms
Sequence sets from phylogenetic and population studies
Proteins
Protein sequences, 3-D structures, and tools for the study of functional protein domains and active sites
Conserved protein domains
Protein sequences grouped by identity
Protein sequences
Models representing homologous proteins with a common function
Experimentally-determined biomolecular structures
BLAST
A tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences
Search nucleotide sequence databases
Search protein sequence databases
Search protein databases using a translated nucleotide query
Search translated nucleotide databases using a protein query
Find primers specific to your PCR template
Genomes
Genome sequence assemblies, large-scale functional genomics data, and source biological samples
Genome assembly information
Museum, herbaria, and other biorepository collections
Biological projects providing data to NCBI
Descriptions of biological source materials
Genome sequencing projects by organism
DNA and RNA sequences
High-throughput sequence reads
Taxonomic classification and nomenclature
Clinical
Heritable DNA variations, associations with human pathologies, and clinical diagnostics and treatments
Privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world
Human variations of clinical significance
Genotype/phenotype interaction studies
Short genetic variations
Genome structural variation studies
Genetic testing registry
Medical genetics literature and links
Online mendelian inheritance in man
PubChem
Repository of chemical information, molecular pathways, and tools for bioactivity screening
Bioactivity screening studies
Chemical information with structures, information and links
Molecular pathways with links to genes, proteins and chemicals
Deposited substance and chemical information
News
Research news
South African Hominin Fossils Predate Lucy, Analysis Suggests
A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein caves to be about 1 million years older than previous estimates, potentially changing scientists’ understanding of humanity’s origins.
Using viruses to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
In several patients, treatment of bacterial lung infections with viruses called phages eliminated the infection.
Recent blog posts
GenBank Release 250.0 is available!
GenBank release 250.0 (6/17/2022) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 18.63 trillion bases and 2.69 billion records. The current release has 239,017,893 traditional records containing 1,395,628,631,187 base pairs of sequence data. There are also 1,796,349,114 WGS records containing 16,710,373,006,600 base pairs of sequence data, 546,991,572 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 485,056,129,761 … Continue reading GenBank Release 250.0 is available!
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The Next Normal: Supporting Biomedical Discovery, Clinical Practice, and Self-Care
As we start year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time for NLM to take stock of the parts of our past that will support the next normal and what we might need to change as we continue to fulfill our mission to acquire, collect, preserve, and disseminate biomedical literature to the world. Today, I … Continue reading "The Next Normal: Supporting Biomedical Discovery, Clinical Practice, and Self-Care"
Introducing NLM’s new NCBI Datasets genome page!
As part of the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) project, NLM’s NCBI Datasets is introducing an all-new modern experience making it easier for you to browse and download genome sequence and metadata, and navigate to tools such as the Genome Data Viewer (GDV) and BLAST. To get started, search NCBI Datasets by assembly accession (e.g., … Continue reading Introducing NLM’s new NCBI Datasets genome page!
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