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Biomedical Literature

• PubMed
  • Biomedical journal literature. See About PubMed for more information. Learn how to find full text articles in PubMed.
• MEDLINE
  • A free database that contains abstracts and other metadata for biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
    
    
• PubMed Central
  • A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
    
    
• LocatorPlus Online Catalog
  • LocatorPlus is the Library's online catalog containing catalog records for books, audiovisuals, journals, computer files, and other materials in the Library's collections.
    
    
• Electronic Databases & Directories: Alphabetical List and Subject List

Biomedical Topics

Computational Molecular Biology

• BLAST
  • A tool that finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance.
• GenBank
  • A database of nucleotide sequences.
• Molecular Structure and Function
  • A database of macromolecular 3D structures, as well as tools for their visualization and comparative analysis.
• Taxonomy Database
  • A database of taxonomic names of lineages of organisms represented in NCBI's sequence databases.
• Conserved Domain Database (CDD)
  • A database to identify the conserved domains present in a protein sequence.
• Reference Sequences (RefSeq)
  • A collection of reference sequences for genomes, gene transcripts, and proteins.
• Vector Alignment Search Tool (VAST)
  • A computer algorithm developed at NCBI and used to identify similar protein 3-dimensional structures ("similar structures") by purely geometric criteria and to identify distant homologs that cannot be recognized by sequence comparison.

Health Data Standards and Natural Language Processing

• Health Information Technology and Health Data Standards at NLM
  • Clinical vocabulary standards and tools that support implementation of Meaningful Use, C-CDA, and other programs

Human Genome Resources

• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
  • A guide to genes and inherited disorders.
    
    
• 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 Data Viewer
  • A genome browser supporting the exploration and analysis of more than 580 eukaryotic RefSeq genome assemblies.
    
    
• More Human Genome resources at NCBI

Health Services Research and Public Health

• Health Services Research and Public Health

Intramural Research

• NLM Intramural Research Program

History of Medicine

• Research Tools
• Historical Collections
• Exhibition Program
• Historical Collections Copyright Information

Policies and Guidelines

• NIH Public Access Compliance Toolkit
• Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives: By Organization
• Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
• NLM Web Policies (Privacy and Security ; NLM Social Media Comments Policy ; Copyright)
• Patron Guide to Copyright and Historical Materials

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