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Looking Back on 50 Years 05/01/2018 04:00 PM EDT Guest post by George Franklin, an information technology specialist in NLM's Office of Computer and Communications Systems I started my government career at the National Library of Medicine in July 1967. It was a time of paper, pens and pencils, typewriters—both manual and electric—and plenty of carbon paper. The card catalog that I used many … Continue reading "Looking Back on 50 Years" The NCBI BioCollections database links specimen vouchers and sequence records to home institutions 05/01/2018 01:01 PM EDT A paper in the January 2018 issue of Database describes the NCBI BioCollections database, a curated dataset of metadata for culture collections, museums, herbaria and other natural history collections connected to sequence records in GenBank. The BioCollections database was established … Continue reading → NLM in '68: The Landmark Lawsuit That Went All the Way to the Supreme Court 05/01/2018 12:45 PM EDT NLM has long been in the business of information innovation, but did you know it played a key role in a legal precedent that would have national impact and result in a new copyright law? In 1968, photocopying was a fast way to duplicate information. It was also the source of controversy. And NLM was… Genetics Home Reference: Can changes in noncoding DNA affect health and development? 05/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/mutationsanddisorders/noncondingdnahealth Genetics Home Reference: What is noncoding DNA? 05/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/noncodingdna   This service is provided to you at no charge by the NLM Office Of Communication and Public Liaison. This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: U.S. National Library of Medicine · 8600 Rockville Pike · Bethesda, MD 20894