NCBI C++ Toolkit Manual

A comprehensive manual on the NCBI C++ toolkit, including its design and development framework, a C++ library reference, software examples and demos, FAQs and release notes. The manual is searchable online and can be downloaded as a series of PDF documents.

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NCBI Data Specifications

Specifications for NCBI data in ASN.1 or DTD format. The “NCBI_data_conversion.html” links to the conversion tool.

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NCBI Education Page

Links to tutorials and training materials, including PowerPoint slides and print handouts.

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NCBI Field Guide Manual

Downloadable material for previously offered NCBI Field Guide training course.

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NCBI Glossary

Part of the NCBI Handbook, this glossary contains descriptions of NCBI tools and acronyms, bioinformatics terms and data representation formats.

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NCBI Handbook

An extensive collection of articles about NCBI databases and software.

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NCBI Help Manual

Accessed through the NCBI Bookshelf, the Help Manual contains documentation for many NCBI resources, including PubMed, PubMed Central, the Entrez system, Gene, SNP and LinkOut. All chapters can be downloaded in PDF format.

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NCBI News

Monthly newsletter provides information on new and updated databases, and software services. Articles highlight and demonstrate services, features, tools, and interesting data with practical examples of their use.

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NCBI Structure Course Materials

PowerPoint slides, handouts and exercises for the previously offered NCBI course "Exploring 3D Molecular Structures".

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NCBI Toolbox

A set of software and data exchange specifications used by NCBI to produce portable, modular software for molecular biology. Primarily designed to read records in Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) format, an International Standards Organization (ISO) data representation format.

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NCBI Website Search

A database of static NCBI Web pages, documentation, and online tools.Including specialized online sequence analysis tools, back issues of newsletters, legacy resource description pages, sample code, and other miscellaneous resources. Equivalent to a site search tool for the whole NCBI web site excluding FTP site.