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The Databases</a><ul id="toc_lst_NBK21101_toc_Part1_bxml" class="simple-list toc bktoc_lst_exp"><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch1"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch1/?report=reader">Chapter 1. GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch2"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch2/?report=reader">Chapter 2. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch3"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch3/?report=reader">Chapter 3. Macromolecular Structure Databases</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch4"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch4/?report=reader">Chapter 4. The Taxonomy Project</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch5"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch5/?report=reader">Chapter 5. The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) of Nucleotide Sequence Variation</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch6"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch6/?report=reader">Chapter 6. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): A Gene Expression and Hybridization Repository</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch7"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch7/?report=reader">Chapter 7. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): A Directory of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch8"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch8/?report=reader">Chapter 8. The NCBI BookShelf: Searchable Biomedical Books</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch9"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch9/?report=reader">Chapter 9. PubMed Central (PMC): An Archive for Literature from Life Sciences Journals</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch10"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch10/?report=reader">Chapter 10. The SKY/CGH Database for Spectral Karyotyping and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch11"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch11/?report=reader">Chapter 11. The Major Histocompatibility Complex Database, dbMHC</a></li></ul></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_Part2_bxml"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/Part2.bxml/?report=reader">Part 2. Data Flow and Processing</a><ul id="toc_lst_NBK21101_toc_Part2_bxml" class="simple-list toc bktoc_lst_exp"><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch12"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch12/?report=reader">Chapter 12. Sequin: A Sequence Submission and Editing Tool</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch13"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch13/?report=reader">Chapter 13. The Processing of Biological Sequence Data at NCBI</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch14"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch14/?report=reader">Chapter 14. Genome Assembly and Annotation Process</a></li></ul></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_Part3_bxml"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/Part3.bxml/?report=reader">Part 3. Querying and Linking the Data</a><ul id="toc_lst_NBK21101_toc_Part3_bxml" class="simple-list toc bktoc_lst_exp"><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch15"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch15/?report=reader">Chapter 15. The Entrez Search and Retrieval System</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch16"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch16/?report=reader">Chapter 16. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch17"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch17/?report=reader">Chapter 17. LinkOut: Linking to External Resources from Entrez Databases</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch18"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch18/?report=reader">Chapter 18. The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Database</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch19"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch19/?report=reader">Chapter 19. Gene: A Directory of Genes</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch20"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch20/?report=reader">Chapter 20. Using the Map Viewer to Explore Genomes</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch21"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch21/?report=reader">Chapter 21. UniGene: A Unified View of the Transcriptome</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch22"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch22/?report=reader">Chapter 22. The Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs) Database: Phylogenetic Classification of Proteins from Complete Genomes</a></li></ul></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_Part4_bxml"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/Part4.bxml/?report=reader">Part 4. User Support</a><ul id="toc_lst_NBK21101_toc_Part4_bxml" class="simple-list toc bktoc_lst_exp"><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch23"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch23/?report=reader">Chapter 23. User Services: Helping You Find Your Way</a></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_ch24"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/ch24/?report=reader">Chapter 24. Exercises: Using Map Viewer</a></li></ul></li><li class="half_rhythm" id="toc_itm_NBK21101_toc_A1237"><a class="toc-item" href="/books/n/handbook/A1237/?report=reader">Glossary</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="small-screen-prev"></div><div class="small-screen-next"></div></article></div><div id="jr-scripts"><script src="/corehtml/pmc/jatsreader/ptpmc_3.22/js/libs.min.js"> </script><script src="/corehtml/pmc/jatsreader/ptpmc_3.22/js/jr.min.js"> </script></div></div>
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