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Name: Introduction to NCBI
ID: m10995
Language: English (en)
Summary: This is an introduction to the bioinformatics website provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It includes an overview of the basic mission of NCBI and an introduction to the most commonly used biological databases available on the website and the tools for viewing and analyzing the data.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: bioinformatics, biological databases, database mining, NCBI, sequence alignment
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0)
Authors: Susan Cates (mscates@bioc.rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Susan Cates (mscates@bioc.rice.edu)
Maintainers: Susan Cates (mscates@bioc.rice.edu)
Version: 2.1 (history)
Created: Jan 12, 2003 12:00 am US/Central
Revised: Aug 1, 2005 9:47 pm GMT-5

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Version: 2.1 Aug 1, 2005 9:47 pm GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
update to cnxml-0.5, place references in bibliography markup
Version: 2.0 Jan 12, 2003 12:00 am US/Central by (Unknown)
Changes: 
version 1

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