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Graphic showing the integration of multiple databases using the Entrez search and retrieval system. Databases include OMIM, PubMed, Full text electronic journals, Nucleotide Sequences, 3D Structutes, Maps & Genomes, Protein Sequences, and Taxonomy.

See an interactive view of Entrez links at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/

PubMed Overview (cont.)

  • PubMed is a Web-based retrieval system developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. It is part of NCBI's vast retrieval system, known as Entrez.

  • PubMed is a database of bibliographic information drawn primarily from the life sciences literature.

  • PubMed contains links to full-text articles at participating publishers' Web sites as well as links to other third party sites such as libraries and sequencing centers.

  • PubMed provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology and chemistry databases maintained by NCBI.

The diagram illustrates the relationships between some of the information resources in Entrez.

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Last reviewed: 28 April 2009
Last updated: 10 October 2008
First published: 20 March 2001
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