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 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,....  

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