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What is NCBI?

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It hosts a suite of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine and is an important resource for bioinformatics tools and services. Common uses include accessing genetic sequence data (GenBank), protein sequences, the PubMed database of biomedical literature, and tools for sequence analysis and data retrieval.

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What other technologies are related to NCBI?

NCBI Competitor Technologies

Ensembl

Ensembl is a genome browser and annotation resource that provides similar information to NCBI's resources like GenBank and RefSeq, making it a competitor.

mentioned alongside NCBI in 59% (205) of relevant job posts

UCSC Genome Browser

The UCSC Genome Browser is a competitor because it offers a similar service of visualizing and exploring genomic data like NCBI's genome browser.

mentioned alongside NCBI in 43% (143) of relevant job posts

UCSC

UCSC is the organization behind the UCSC Genome Browser. The UCSC Genome Browser is a competitor because it offers a similar service of visualizing and exploring genomic data like NCBI's genome browser.

mentioned alongside NCBI in 53% (66) of relevant job posts

NCBI Complementary Technologies

Uniprot

UniProt is a comprehensive protein database that complements NCBI's protein resources like GenPept. Data from both databases are often used together.

mentioned alongside NCBI in 40% (79) of relevant job posts

ENCODE

ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) produces data about functional elements in the human and mouse genomes, which is often integrated into resources like the NCBI genome browser, making it complementary.

mentioned alongside NCBI in 39% (78) of relevant job posts

TCGA

TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) provides cancer genomic data that is often used in conjunction with NCBI resources for analysis and research, hence complementary.

mentioned alongside NCBI in 20% (78) of relevant job posts