The NCBI Handbook is on the Bookshelf

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The NCBI Handbook is on the Bookshelf

NCBI now offers a handbook available in electronic form in the NCBI Books database. The handbook is geared towards people who want to get the most from the NCBI webpages or who want a detailed introduction to NCBI resources with extensive links to help documentation. The 23 chapters of the NCBI Handbook, organized into four sections, cover topics ranging from the processing of sequence submissions to the assembly of the human genome.

Each chapter in the Handbook is available for online searching and browsing and also in PDF format for printing.

The Table of Contents for the Handbook is given below:

Part 1. The Databases
1. GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database
2. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database
3. Macromolecular Structure Databases
4. The Taxonomy Project
5. The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) of Nucleotide Sequence Variation
6. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): A Gene Expression and Hybridization Repository
7. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): A Directory of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders
8. The NCBI BookShelf: Searchable Biomedical Books
9. PubMed Central (PMC): An Archive for Literature from Life Sciences Journals
10. The SKY/CGH Database for Spectral Karyotyping and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data

Part 2. Data Flow and Processing
11. Sequin: A Sequence Submission and Editing Tool
12. The Processing of Biological Sequence Data at NCBI
13. Genome Assembly and Annotation Process

Part 3. Querying and Linking the Data
14. The Entrez Search and Retrieval System
15. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool
16. LinkOut: Linking to External Resources from Entrez Databases
17. The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Project
18. LocusLink: A Directory of Genes
19. Using the Map Viewer to Explore Genomes
20. UniGene: A Unified View of the Transcriptome
21. The Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs) Database:
Phylogenetic Classification of Proteins from Complete Genomes

Part 4. User Support
22. User Services: Helping You Find Your Way
23. Exercises: Using Map Viewer

Other new books on the bookshelf are:

The Human ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Transporter Superfamily.
Dean, Michael, Bethesda (MD): NCBI, National Library of Medicine (US).

Basic Neurochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects. 6th ed.
Siegel, George J.; Agranoff, Bernard W.; Albers, R. Wayne; Fisher, Stephen K.;
Uhler, Michael D., editors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.