National Center for Biotechnology Information
Click Below To Enter The Site National Center for Biotechnology Information The National Center for Biotechnology Information ( NCBI ) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health . The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper . The NCBI houses a series of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine. Major databases include GenBank for DNA sequences and PubMed , a bibliographic database for the biomedical literature. Other databases include the NCBI Epigenomics database. All these databases are available online through the Entrez search engine. NCBI is directed by David Lipman , one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment program and a widely respected figure in bioinformatics . He ...