Retiring and replacing the BLink protein similarity service | NCBI Insights

Retiring and replacing the BLink protein similarity service | NCBI Insights

Retiring and replacing the BLink protein similarity service

05/17/2017 07:23 PM EDT

NCBI is discontinuing the BLink protein similarity service effective immediately. BLink provided graphical access to related proteins from protein records in the Entrez system. Because of the increasing volume of data in the protein database, BLink has become less useful … Continue reading →

What Kinds of Libraries Are Needed to Support Data-driven Discovery?

05/18/2017 04:00 PM EDT

The National Library of Medicine supports discovery. We help investigators disseminate their findings, and we help others see what has been done and build on those results. And, analyzing the library collection itself—the journal articles on a topic or the sequences in our gene databases—can yield its own discoveries as researchers look beyond the specifics to discern patterns or trends in the whole.