The emergence and development of NCBI is under the background of the rapid development of biology in the United States and the world, the rapid production of Qualcomm data and the lack of effective data analysis methods. At first, its main task was data storage and query. However, most of the data it stores are Qualcomm data, such as gene sequencing, genome, SNP, gene chip, small molecular compounds and GWAS data. The enjoyment of these data has greatly promoted the development of bioinformatics.
Display data->; Style->; Knowledge->; With the development mode of wisdom, NCBI mainly plays the role of providing data for biologists. However, NCBI is constantly adjusting its role. Such as biomedical literature. On the basis of inheriting NLM PubMed, NCBI provides full-text literature service with PMC database as the core. PubMed database should be the most frequently used database by biologists in the world. NCBI's recent revision of pubmed shows that it attaches importance to the database. Although there is no substantial change, it has been modified according to the user experience.
In addition, NCBI keeps introducing highly educated biological talents to control the quality of its database. Take dbSNP as an example, it is cooperating with domain experts to associate mutation data with human phenotypic data.
Generally speaking, the development of NCBI is closely related to the generation of biological Qualcomm data. It is not limited to providing data storage and query, and its future development will surely develop into a huge and comprehensive knowledge base. Whether NCBI will be free by then is another matter. Obviously, no one will give up their manuscript. If there is such a day, I don't know how many patents and intellectual property rights will be generated from it.