The<unk>  <unk>  is part of the  United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health.  The<unk>  is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988. The<unk>  houses genome sequencing data in GenBank and an index of biomedical research articles in PubMed Central and PubMed, as well as other<unk>  relevant to<unk> . All these databases are available online through the Entrez search engine.
The<unk>  is directed by David Lipman, one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment program and a widely respected figure in Bioinformatics. He also leads an intramural research program, including groups led by Stephen Altschul (another BLAST co-author), David Landsman, and Eugene Koonin (a prolific author on comparative genomics).
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