The National Center for Biotechnology Information is a division of the United States National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, based in Bethesda, Maryland. It was created by an act of Congress to develop information systems for molecular biology. NCBI maintains GenBank, the public database of DNA sequences, and PubMed, the search service for biomedical literature, as well as tools such as BLAST for comparing sequences. These resources are used daily by researchers worldwide and are fundamental to genomics, medicine and drug discovery. Its first director was David Lipman, who helped develop BLAST.
Before and after
- from 16 August 1988 to 18 August 1988Gladbeck hostage crisis
- 21 August 1988Birth of Robert Lewandowski
- September 1988Publication of The Satanic Verses
- 15 October 1988Birth of Mesut Özil
- 4 November 1988Launch of National Center for Biotechnology Information
- 8 November 19881988 United States presidential election
- 15 November 1988First flight of Buran
- 18 November 1988Release of Oliver & Company
- 7 December 19881988 Spitak earthquake
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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