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.Information Literacy in the Health Sciences

Orientation to health resources and search strategies.

NCBI Databases

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides analysis and retrieval resources that include the GeneBank, Entrez, MyNCBI, PubMed, Entrez Gene, BLAST, BLAST Link (BLink), Electronic PCR, UniGene, HomoloGene, ProtEST, Cancer Chromosomes, Entrez Genomes, among many others.


PubMed includes over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Select full-text is available via PubMed Central.

How to Use the NCBI’s Bioinformatics Tools and Databases