National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

is an Organization.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI creates, maintains, and distributes a variety of databases and software tools for the biomedical research community, including GenBank, PubMed, RefSeq, dbSNP, ClinVar, and many others. NCBI also develops and supports bioinformatics tools such as BLAST for sequence analysis.

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Associated Resources

ID Category Number of Products Description
clinicaltrialsgov DataSource 12 ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical st...
clinvar DataSource 21 ClinVar is a freely accessible, public archive of reports of human genetic va...
dailymed DataSource 5 DailyMed is the National Library of Medicine's official provider of FDA drug ...
dbsnp DataSource 9 dbSNP contains human single nucleotide variations, microsatellites, and small...
entrez Aggregator 3 Entrez is NCBI's primary text search and retrieval system that integrates mul...
ghr DataSource 0 Consumer health resource about genetic conditions from the US National Librar...
homologene DataSource 3 HomoloGene was NCBI's database of homologs (genes with common ancestry) from ...
litvar DataSource 2 LitVar is a comprehensive NCBI web service for searching and retrieving varia...
medlineplus DataSource 5 MedlinePlus is the premier online health information resource from the Nation...
ncbigene DataSource 26 NCBI Gene integrates information from a wide range of species. A record may i...
pubchem DataSource 15 PubChem is an open chemistry database that collects information on chemical s...
pubmed Aggregator 16 PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of re...
pubtator DataSource 4 PubTator 3.0 is an AI-powered biomedical literature resource that uses state-...
refseq DataSource 5 The NCBI Reference Sequence Database (RefSeq) provides a comprehensive, integ...
rxnorm DataSource 7 RxNorm is the National Library of Medicine's standardized nomenclature for cl...
semmeddb DataSource 10 SemMedDB is a repository of semantic predications (subject-predicate-object t...
snomedct Ontology 10 SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) is the most ...
umls Aggregator 10 The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates and distributes over 20...

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Created: December 07, 2025 | Last modified: December 07, 2025