Corsi Ann K
Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA.
Biol Cell. 2006 Jul;98(7):439-43. doi: 10.1042/BC20050093.
The NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) at the National Institutes of Health collects a wide range of molecular biological data, and develops tools and databases to analyse and disseminate this information. Many life scientists are familiar with the website maintained by the NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), because they use it to search GenBank for homologues of their genes of interest or to search the PubMed database for scientific literature of interest. There is also a database called the Bookshelf that includes searchable popular life science textbooks, medical and research reference books and NCBI reference materials. The Bookshelf can be useful for researchers and educators to find basic biological information. This article includes a representative list of the resources currently available on the Bookshelf, as well as instructions on how to access the information in these resources.
美国国立卫生研究院的国家生物技术信息中心（NCBI）收集了广泛的分子生物学数据，并开发工具和数据库来分析和传播这些信息。许多生命科学家都熟悉NCBI维护的网站（http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov），因为他们用它在GenBank中搜索感兴趣基因的同源物，或在PubMed数据库中搜索感兴趣的科学文献。还有一个名为“书架”的数据库，其中包括可搜索的流行生命科学教科书、医学和研究参考书以及NCBI参考资料。“书架”对研究人员和教育工作者查找基础生物学信息可能会有所帮助。本文列出了“书架”目前可用资源的代表性清单，以及如何获取这些资源中信息的说明。
