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NIH - NCBI Databases
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- The National Library of Medicine's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides a number of specialized databases for use in biomedical research.
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- For a listing of all these databases, as well as other specialized research tools, visit NCBI's All Resources.
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- Entrez
- Includes PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
- NCBI BLAST
- Allows researchers to perform sequence searching and alignment.
- NCBI GenBank
- Provides an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
- NCBI Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA)
- Searches genes, inherited disorders, and traits in animal species.
- NCBI Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
- Provides information about human genes and genetic phenotypes.
- Open Mass Spectrometry Search Algorithm (OMSSA)
- This was a mass spectra search engine for identifying MS/MS peptide spectra by searching known protein sequences. The search database is discontinued due to budget issue. Only historical binaries are available from the ftp server.
