Literature
PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than 38 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.
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Literature databases
Books and reports
Ontology used for PubMed indexing
Books, journals and more in the NLM Collections
Scientific and medical abstracts/citations
Full-text journal articles
Data
Genes
Gene sequences and annotations used as references for the study of orthologs structure, expression, and evolution
Collected information about gene loci
Functional genomics studies
Gene expression and molecular abundance profiles
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 protein domains
Protein sequences grouped by identity
Protein sequences
Models representing homologous proteins with a common function
Experimentally-determined biomolecular structures
BLAST
A tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences
Search nucleotide sequence databases
Search protein sequence databases
Search protein databases using a translated nucleotide query
Search translated nucleotide databases using a protein query
Find primers specific to your PCR template
Genomes
Genome sequence assemblies, large-scale functional genomics data, and source biological samples
Genome assembly information
Museum, herbaria, and other biorepository collections
Biological projects providing data to NCBI
Descriptions of biological source materials
Genome sequencing projects by organism
DNA and RNA sequences
High-throughput sequence reads
Taxonomic classification and nomenclature
Clinical
Heritable DNA variations, associations with human pathologies, and clinical diagnostics and treatments
Privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world
Human variations of clinical significance
Genotype/phenotype interaction studies
Short genetic variations
Genome structural variation studies
Genetic testing registry
Medical genetics literature and links
Online mendelian inheritance in man
PubChem
Repository of chemical information, molecular pathways, and tools for bioactivity screening
Bioactivity screening studies
Chemical information with structures, information and links
Molecular pathways with links to genes, proteins and chemicals
Deposited substance and chemical information
News
Research news
Brain structure differences are associated with early use of substances among adolescents
Many differences appeared to exist prior to any substance use, pointing to the role brain structure may play in substance use risk, NIH-supported study suggests.
Bird flu Q&A: What to know to help protect yourself and your pets
Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying about how it is spreading and how to keep yourself and your pets safe.
Scientists know our bodies are full of microplastics. What are they doing to us?
Plastic particles are found in our organs, blood and even semen. But do they stay in us forever? What damage are they doing? Here are six questions scientists are trying to answer.
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