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Part 1. The Databases

PDF Document 1. GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database
Ilene Mizrachi.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 22, 2007
PDF Document 2. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database
Kathi Canese, Jennifer Jentsch, and Carol Myers.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 3. Macromolecular Structure Databases
Eric Sayers and Steve Bryant.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 4. The Taxonomy Project
Scott Federhen.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 5. The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) of Nucleotide Sequence Variation
Adrienne Kitts and Stephen Sherry.
Created: October 09, 2002, Updated: July 17, 2007
PDF Document 6. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): A Gene Expression and Hybridization Repository
Ron Edgar and Alex Lash.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 7. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): A Directory of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders
Donna Maglott, Joanna S. Amberger, and Ada Hamosh.
Created: October 9, 2002
PDF Document 8. The NCBI BookShelf: Searchable Biomedical Books
Bart Trawick, Jeff Beck, and Jo McEntyre.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 9. PubMed Central (PMC): An Archive for Literature from Life Sciences Journals
Jeff Beck and Ed Sequeira.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 10. The SKY/CGH Database for Spectral Karyotyping and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data
Turid Knutsen, Vasuki Gobu, Rodger Knaus, Thomas Ried, and Karl Sirotkin.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 11. The Major Histocompatibility Complex Database, dbMHC
Adrienne Kitts, Michael Feolo, and Wolfgang Helmberg.
Created: May 27, 2003, Updated: August 13, 2003
Part 2. Data Flow and Processing

PDF Document 12. Sequin: A Sequence Submission and Editing Tool
Jonathan Kans.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 13. The Processing of Biological Sequence Data at NCBI
Karl Sirotkin, Tatiana Tatusova, Eugene Yaschenko, and Mark Cavanaugh.
Created: October 09, 2002, Updated: March 14, 2006
PDF Document 14. Genome Assembly and Annotation Process
Paul Kitts.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
Part 3. Querying and Linking the Data

PDF Document 15. The Entrez Search and Retrieval System
Jim Ostell.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 16. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool
Tom Madden.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 17. LinkOut: Linking to External Resources from Entrez Databases
Kathy Kwan.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 18. The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Project
Kim Pruitt, Tatiana Tatusova, and Donna Maglott.
Created: October 09, 2002, Updated: January 3, 2007
PDF Document 19. Entrez Gene: A Directory of Genes
Donna Maglott, Kim Pruitt, and Tatiana Tatusova.
Created: March 3, 2005
PDF Document 20. Using the Map Viewer to Explore Genomes
Susan M. Dombrowski and Donna Maglott.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 21. UniGene: A Unified View of the Transcriptome
Joan U. Pontius, Lukas Wagner, and Gregory D. Schuler.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 22. The Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs) Database: Phylogenetic Classification of Proteins from Complete Genomes
Eugene V. Koonin.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
Part 4. User Support

PDF Document 23. User Services: Helping You Find Your Way
David Wheeler and Barbara Rapp.
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
PDF Document 24. Exercises: Using Map Viewer
David Wheeler, Kim Pruitt, Donna Maglott, Susan Dombrowski, and Andrei Gabrelian.
Created: November 4, 2002, Updated: August 13, 2003
Glossary
Created: October 9, 2002, Updated: April 30, 2003

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