The National Center for Biotechnology Information[]
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (also referred to as the NCBI) is run by the US government .....
History[]
The NCBI was established November 4, 1988 by the efforts of a senator from Florida, Claude Pepper. Senator Pepper had predicted an increasing demand to process and computerize research results to facilitate biomedical research. As a result, the National Library of Medicine was selected to oversee the initiation and upkeep of this program, as it had experience creating and maintaining biomedical databases,....