National Center for Biotechnology Information
The
National Center for Biotechnology Information (
NCBI) is part of the
US National Library of Medicine, which is a branch of the US
National Institutes of Health. The NCBI is located in
Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in
1988. The NCBI houses
genome sequencing data and an index of biomedical research articles, as well as other information relevant to
biotechnology.
The NCBI hosts many respected researchers, such as Eugene Koonin, a prolific author on comparative genomics, and Stephen Altschul, the author of the BLAST sequence database searching program.
See also: National Institutes of Health -- National Library of Medicine
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