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NCBI Entrez databases - the Life Sciences Search Engine
A cross database search engine, Entrez searches the main PubMed and PubMed Central databases, as well as sequence databases such as Nucleotide, Protein, and Genome. For a complete list see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery.
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
BLAST from the NCBI finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches.
BRENDA
From the Technical University of Braunschweig, BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community.
GeneCards
A searchable, integrated database of human genes that provides concise genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, genetic and functional information on all known and predicted human genes.
Nucleic Acid Database (NDB)
a searchable repository of three-dimensional structural information about nucleic acids.
OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes.

Links to NCBI Tutorials

NCBI BLAST Tutorial
This BLAST tutorial is designed to help both the novice and experienced BLAST user to set up and perform a BLAST search, decipher the output and analyze the results.
NCBI Entrez Tutorial
This tutorial is designed to show users how to make use of the full power of the Entrez data retrieval system. Using a human gene as an example, it demonstrates the variety of information that can be gathered for a single gene.