The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

Embase is the medical research database for high-quality, comprehensive evidence. Regulators around the world recognize Embase as a source for medical literature.

The NCBI houses a series of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine and is an important resource for bioinformatics tools and services. Major databases include GenBank for DNA sequences and PubMed, a bibliographic database for biomedical literature.

The NCBI was established in 1988 by an act of the United States Congress as division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, with a mission to find new approaches to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of biological data in order to facilitate the understanding of genes and ...