GenBank Celebrates 25 Years of Service (Day 2) |
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Air date: | Tuesday, April 08, 2008, 9:00:00 AM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local |
Category: | Conferences |
Runtime: | 360 minutes |
NLM Title: | GenBank celebrates 25 years of service [electronic resource] / National Center for Biotechnology [Information] and National Library of Medicine. |
Author: | National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.) |
Publisher: | [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2008] |
Abstract: | (CIT): For a quarter century, GenBank has helped advance scientific discovery worldwide. The nucleic acid sequence database was established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1982. Since its creation, the GenBank database has grown at an exponential rate. Amazing as it may seem, in 1984, the entirety of GenBank's data was published in a two volume hardcover book. Today, if the current contents of GenBank's database were printed, it would fill more than 300 pickup trucks with paper. Unveiled at the onset of the "Information Age", GenBank has continued to evolve and incorporate technological innovations. The GenBank database has remained on the cutting edge of technology and illustrates the dynamic changes over the past 25 years in quantity and speed with which information is shared. GenBank joined with sequence databases in Europe and Japan to form the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. GenBank was one of the earliest bioinformatics community projects on the Internet promoting open access communications among bioscientists. In 1992, the GenBank project transitioned to the newly created National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) within NIH where it resides today. |
Subjects: | Access to Information Base Sequence Databases, Nucleic Acid Genetic Research |
Publication Types: | Congresses Government Publications |
NLM Classification: | QU 470 |
NLM ID: | 101473073 |
CIT File ID: | 14416 |
CIT Live ID: | 6671 |
Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14416 |