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From the San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 1999 -
"And a little fruit fly shall lead them: joint
venture to probe sequence of human genes". The project to
sequence Drosophila melangaster will link the
federally
funded work of Gerald Rubin at UC Berkeley and the computer
resources of Celera Genomics. The role of GenBank as the
repository for the gene sequence is discussed. |
July
1999 |
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According to The Washington Post, June 10, 1999
- "Data Basics: Federal Sites a Big Hit", NIH ranked
No. 4 in the top 10 most-visited government web
sites in April, 1999 with 1.54 million visits [1.29
million were to NCBI]. |
August
1999 |
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PubMed was described as "an outstanding, free
service to the research and education
communities", and OMIM was named "the
authoritative reference for information on the
inheritance of human characteristics" in the
August, 1999, issue of the American Library
Association magazine, CHOICE. |
October
1999 |
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According to the Delaware State News, October 3, 1999,
scientists at the University of California at Irvine used
NCBI resources to find that the recent encephalitis cases
in the New York area were caused by the exotic West Nile or
Kunjin virus, never before reported in the U.S. |
November
1999 |
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Chromosome 22 is the first human chromosome to
have its euchromatic portion be completely sequenced and
deposited in GenBank. This milestone achievement was
featured by major newspapers including the
December 2, 1999 issue of The Washington
Post. |
December
1999 |
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Coffee Break was chosen as a Hot Site by USA Today [Oct.
20, 1999]. Tauted as helping one "keep up with the
world-transforming course of biotechnology", NCBI's
Coffee Break was featured in eight more newspapers
nationwide. |
January
2000 |
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As featured in the Nov. 25, 1999 issue of Nature, NCBI's
LocusLink, a single query interface to curated sequences
for genetic loci, is promoting a standard nomenclature for
genes and proteins. Such curation will reduce confusion,
and expedite literature and database searching. |
February
2000 |
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Bioinformatics resources such as NCBI's UniGene, which
organizes human GenBank sequences into cancer-related
gene "clusters", may help in the battle against breast
cancer, according to Modern Drug Discovery [Jan., 2000]. |
March
2000 |
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The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP), containing over 40,000 genes linked to cancer formation and growth, is "having a big impact on the pace of gene discovery" according to UCSF's Electronic Daily [March 30, 2000]. |
May
2000 |
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The sequences for 29 complete microbial genomes, maintained by NCBI's Entrez Genome, offer the "best chance yet to find new targets" for anti-bacterial drugs according to The Scientist [May 1, 2000]. |
June
2000 |
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The NCBI sequence database, GenBank, the search and retrieval system, Entrez, and the sequence alignment tool, BLAST, were singled out as key resources for deciphering the human genome [Scientific American, July, 2000]. |
July
2000 |
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