NIF Data Spotlight: NCBI Entrez-Gene

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a national institute under the National Library of Medicine which holds vast amounts of biological data. Entrez is an web portal or federated search engine provided by NCBI to allow scientists to access this information. In this blog post, we will look at NCBI Entrez:Gene, one of the many databases in the Entrez system.

Information in NCBI Entrez: Gene can be easily accessed through NIF by searching for specific gene of  interest. For example,  to learn more about the gene pca, try performing the following search in NIF: "gene: pca". NCBI Entrez:Gene can be found under Nervous System Level > Gene > EntrezGene: NCBIGene (shown below).



The result displays the Gene Symbol, Synonyms, Type, Description and Organism. Clicking on the gene name will take you to the NCBI Entrez:gene portal with more details about the gene.

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