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NCBI & NLM Databases

NCBI & NLM

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Popular NCBI Resources

  • BLAST: BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance

  • Bookshelf: Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.

  • Gene: Gene integrates information from a wide range of species. A record may include nomenclature, Reference Sequences (RefSeqs), maps, pathways, variations, phenotypes, and links to genome-, phenotype-, and locus-specific resources worldwide

  • Genome: This resource organizes information on genomes including sequences, maps, chromosomes, assemblies, and annotations.

  • Nucleotide: The Nucleotide database is a collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA and PDB.

  • OMIM®: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man®, is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes.

  • Protein: The Protein database is a collection of sequences from several sources, including translations from annotated coding regions in GenBank, RefSeq and TPA, as well as records from SwissProt, PIR, PRF, and PDB.

  • PubChem:

  • PubMed: PubMed comprises more than 26 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.

  • PubMed Central: PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

  • SNP: Database of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and multiple small-scale variations that include insertions/deletions, microsatellites, and non-polymorphic variants.

National Library of Medicine

Disaster Databases

  • Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM): Enables first responders and other healthcare providers and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving accidental or terrorist chemical releases.

  • Disaster and Emergency Response Resources from the National Library of Medicine.

  • Disaster Lit®: the Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health was a database of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available on the Internet at no cost. This resource was retired on June 1, 2021 and is no longer updated; however, the data from that point remain available to support research and development efforts. Linked documents include expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and similar materials selected from over 700 organizations for a professional audience.

  • Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM): Designed for health care providers, primarily physicians, without formal expertise in radiation safety or radiation medicine who may provide medical care during an accidental or non-accidental radiation event.

Drug, Dietary Supplement Labels and Toxicology Databases

  • Dietary Supplement Label Database: A free source of information, created via a collaboration of the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements with the National Library of Medicine, from the labels of dietary supplements marketed and sold in the United States.

  • DailyMed: Vehicle for access to the labels as well as to other sources and types of information about medications.

  • Haz-Map: Links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.

  • HIVInfo: A resource providing information on HIV/AIDS clinical trials and federally approved HIV treatment and prevention guidelines, information on HIV/AIDS treatment, clinical trials, and other HIV/AIDS-related research information for health care providers, researchers, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and the general public.

  • Consumer Product Information Database: Potential health effects of chemicals in more than 10,000 common household products.

  • LactMed: Drugs and Lactation Database. Drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.

  • PubChem: PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

  • RxNorm: Normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, MediSpan, Gold Standard Drug Database, and Multum. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary.

Genetic Resources

  • Genetic Testing Registry (GTR): Information about conditions and phenotypes by searching for disease names, traits, drugs, proteins, and analytes (the sample analyzed).

  • Genome.gov: Provides links to a variety of health, education, research, news, and grants resources.

  • Health Information for Genetic Disorders: search for "genetics" to see several pages of interest.

  • MedlinePlus Genetics: Find consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variation on human health.

  • Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR): This page links to many genetic and rare disease information resources, including the Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center with specialists who answer questions and suggest sources for more information.

  • OMIM®, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man®: A comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes.

Health Services Research and Health Care Technology

  • National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR):

  • Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT): A Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups. It includes Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) evidence reports, guideline documents, and technology assessments, NIH Consensus Development Conference Statements and Technology Assessment Workshop Reports, the U.S. Task Force on Preventive Services' Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) approved guidelines, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) treatment improvement protocols.

MEDLINE Citations and Terminology Databases

Specialized Information Services

  • ClinicalTrials.gov: A registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

  • Ethnic Groups & Literacy Resources

    • Office of Minority Health: Provide national leadership, resources, and coordination to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations and American Indians and Alaska Natives and eliminate health disparities.

  • MedlinePlus: Health information for patients, families and health care providers. Also in Spanish.

  • Multi-Cultural Resources for Health Information

  • Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)

  • MedPix: A database of patient cases integrating images and textual information. The content material is organized by disease location (organ system), pathology category, patient profiles, and by image classification and caption.

  • The Open-i: The Open-i service of the National Library of Medicine enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from the open-source literature, and biomedical image collections. Searching may be done using text queries as well as query images. Open-i provides access to over 3.7 million images from about 1.2 million PubMed Central® articles; 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports; 67,517 images from NLM History of Medicine collection; and 2,064 orthopedic illustrations.

  • Veterinary Science Search and Veterinary Information Resources: The MEDLINE®/PubMed® Veterinary Science search retrieves citations to journal literature, combining subject search terms, title words, and veterinary and animal health journal titles.
 

 

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