The document discusses the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the services and databases it provides. NCBI develops and maintains molecular databases and software tools for searching and analyzing data. It provides a web portal for accessing these data and tools. The databases include those related to biomedical literature, sequences, gene expression, genome maps, structures, pathways and genetic variation. NCBI databases include primary data directly submitted as well as curated data maintained by NCBI. Key databases discussed are GenBank, PubMed, dbSNP, Protein Data Bank and Gene. NCBI provides integrated access to these resources through Entrez and tools for analysis like BLAST, Cn3D and Genome Workbench.