Introduction + Retrieving articles using PubMed

Bioinformatics

Collection and storage of biological information

How are computers used in biology

to collects, analyze, and interpret biological information (nucleic acid sequence, protein sequences, etc…)

in silico

preforming experiments by using computers

PubMed

a centralized NCBI source containing millions of articles which can be accessed through a web based interfaced provided within NCBI

NCBI

The National Centre of Biotechnology Information

NLM

National Library of Medicines

NCBI functions

• Creates a public database for storing, retrieving, and analyzing knowledge about molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics

• Conducts research in computational biology for analyzing the structure and function of biological molecules

• Develops a software tool for analyzing genomics data

• Publishes biomedical information

Entrez

a powerful search engine which allows users to search and retrieve different form the NCBI

one can search articles by

1. query words

2. name of author

3. the journal name

4. their PMID

PMID

a unique number assigned to each PubMed record

PubMed sorts the records according to

the date of publishment

PubMed offers additional filter options

1. Choosing Species

2. Sex

3. Article types

4. Languages

5. Subjects

6. Age

7. Journal Categories