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Literature

PubMed

PubMed® comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Featured Bookshelf titles

Drug Therapy for Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

A Systematic Review Update

Donahue KE, Gartlehner G, Schulman ER, et al.

LiverTox

Clinical and Research Information on Drug-Induced Liver Injury

Browse the Bookshelf

Literature databases

Bookshelf

Books and reports

MeSH

Ontology used for PubMed indexing

NLM Catalog

Books, journals and more in the NLM Collections

PubMed

Scientific and medical abstracts/citations

PubMed Central

Full-text journal articles

Data

Genes

Gene sequences and annotations used as references for the study of orthologs structure, expression, and evolution

Gene

Collected information about gene loci

GEO DataSets

Functional genomics studies

GEO Profiles

Gene expression and molecular abundance profiles

HomoloGene

Homologous genes sets for selected organisms

PopSet

Sequence sets from phylogenetic and population studies

Proteins

Protein sequences, 3-D structures, and tools for the study of functional protein domains and active sites

Conserved Domains

Conserved protein domains

Identical Protein Groups

Protein sequences grouped by identity

Protein

Protein sequences

Protein Family Models

Models representing homologous proteins with a common function

Structure

Experimentally-determined biomolecular structures

BLAST

A tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences

blastn

Search nucleotide sequence databases

blastp

Search protein sequence databases

blastx

Search protein databases using a translated nucleotide query

tblastn

Search translated nucleotide databases using a protein query

Primer-BLAST

Find primers specific to your PCR template

Genomes

Genome sequence assemblies, large-scale functional genomics data, and source biological samples

Assembly

Genome assembly information

BioCollections

Museum, herbaria, and other biorepository collections

BioProject

Biological projects providing data to NCBI

BioSample

Descriptions of biological source materials

Genome

Genome sequencing projects by organism

Nucleotide

DNA and RNA sequences

SRA

High-throughput sequence reads

Taxonomy

Taxonomic classification and nomenclature

Clinical

Heritable DNA variations, associations with human pathologies, and clinical diagnostics and treatments

ClinicalTrials.gov

Privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world

ClinVar

Human variations of clinical significance

dbGaP

Genotype/phenotype interaction studies

dbSNP

Short genetic variations

dbVar

Genome structural variation studies

GTR

Genetic testing registry

MedGen

Medical genetics literature and links

OMIM

Online mendelian inheritance in man

PubChem

Repository of chemical information, molecular pathways, and tools for bioactivity screening

BioAssays

Bioactivity screening studies

Compounds

Chemical information with structures, information and links

Pathways

Molecular pathways with links to genes, proteins and chemicals

Substances

Deposited substance and chemical information

News

Research news

The Washington Post NOVEMBER 25, 2023

‘Zoom fatigue’ may take toll on the brain and the heart, researchers say

Erin Blakemore

Participants were monitored with electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram instruments that recorded electrical activity in the brain and their heart rhythms.

The Washington Post NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Overdose deaths have soared among pregnant people, study reveals

Sabrina Malhi

The alarming report highlights a need to improve outreach and encourage more pregnant and postpartum people to seek treatment, experts say.

The Washington Post NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Loosening restrictions on marijuana may not be boon for reform

Fenit Nirappil

The Drug Enforcement Administration may remove marijuana’s classification as a Schedule I drug. It has implications for research, sales and criminal prosecutions.

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Recent blog posts

NCBI Insights NOV. 21, 2023

Faster and Focused Searches with BLAST+ 2.15.0

New version now available   Do you use NCBI’s standalone BLAST tool (BLAST+)? The latest version of BLAST+ is now available and includes two exciting new features! You can now run searches faster and focus your searches by organism more easily.  What’s new? Run searches faster  BLAST+ now runs 2-10x faster for small databases and … Continue reading Faster and Focused Searches with BLAST+ 2.15.0

NCBI Insights NOV. 20, 2023

Gene Expression Counts on NCBI RefSeq Eukaryotic Genomes

We’re rolling out exciting new features to NCBI RefSeq’s Eukaryote Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAP)! Now you can get a better understanding of gene expression observed in different RNA-seq datasets with our newly added gene expression counts. These are determined using featureCounts based on the EGAP-produced RefSeq annotation and the set of RNA-seq runs aligned with … Continue reading Gene Expression Counts on NCBI RefSeq Eukaryotic Genomes

NCBI Insights NOV. 15, 2023

Gene Ontology (GO) Terms for NCBI RefSeq Eukaryotic Genomes

Are you interested in more functional information about protein-coding genes? We’ve expanded NCBI RefSeq’s Eukaryote Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAP) to include Gene Ontology (GO) terms computed for most protein-coding genes. We are using the latest version of InterProScan, which now includes analysis based on PANTHER reference trees, on all NCBI RefSeq eukaryotic genomes. That means having … Continue reading Gene Ontology (GO) Terms for NCBI RefSeq Eukaryotic Genomes