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8 unusual facts about National Center for Biotechnology Information


Alex Titomirov

InforMax Inc. was also assisting The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, NIH) with various programs including but not limited to the Human Genome Project, GenBank, Entrez, PubMed, and MedLine.

BmKAEP

At the NCBI Protein Database, the full name of this peptide is listed as "Toxin BmKAEP".

CDCa1

According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, CDCa1 has only been found to be expressed in adult individuals with some form of cancer.

Dactyloidae

NCBI places the anole in subfamily Polychrotinae of the family Iguanidae.

LRRC23

This model was generated using Cn3D software provided by NCBI.

PubChemSR

PubChemSR is a MS-Windows-based data search and retrieval tool for the NCBI's public chemical database PubChem.

Robert L. Metcalf

The National Center for Biotechnology Information called Metcalf "one of the leading entomologists of the 20th century".

Structural Classification of Proteins database

The "TaxId" is the taxonomy ID number; it is also a link to the NCBI taxonomy browser, which provides more information about the species to which the protein belongs.


Cofactor Genomics

Upon graduation, Dr. Glasscock pursued his doctorate in Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis where he studied under Warren Gish, Ph.D., developer of the NCBI BLAST sequence analysis program.

Exon trapping

The technique has largely been supplanted by the approach of sequencing cDNA generated from mRNA and then using bioinformatics tools such as NCBI's BLAST server to determine the source of the sequence, thereby identifying the appropriate exon-intron splice sites.

Genomic Standards Consortium

Established in September 2005, this international community includes representatives from a range of major sequencing and bioinformatics centres (including NCBI, EMBL, DDBJ, JCVI, JGI, EBI, Sanger, FIG) and research institutions.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals

Authored by Professor Frank Nicholas of the University of Sydney, with some contribution from colleagues, the database contains textual information and references as well as links to relevant PubMed and Gene records at the NCBI.

Open reading frame

Sequerome - A sequence profiling tool that links each BLAST record to the NCBI ORF enabling complete ORF analysis of a BLAST report.

Sequence Read Archive

The archive is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, and run as a collaboration between the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the DNA Data Bank of Japan.

Taverna workbench

Taverna allows users to integrate many different software components, including SOAP or REST Web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS.

Warren Gish

Gish's earliest contributions to BLAST were made while working at the NCBI, starting in July 1989.


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