- Part 1. The Databases
- Chapter 1. GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database
- Chapter 2. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database
- Chapter 3. Macromolecular Structure Databases
- Chapter 4. The Taxonomy Project
- Chapter 5. The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) of Nucleotide Sequence Variation
- Chapter 6. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): A Gene Expression and Hybridization Repository
- Chapter 7. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): A Directory of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders
- Chapter 8. The NCBI BookShelf: Searchable Biomedical Books
- Chapter 9. PubMed Central (PMC): An Archive for Literature from Life Sciences Journals
- Chapter 10. The SKY/CGH Database for Spectral Karyotyping and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data
- Chapter 11. The Major Histocompatibility Complex Database, dbMHC
- Part 2. Data Flow and Processing
- Part 3. Querying and Linking the Data
- Chapter 15. The Entrez Search and Retrieval System
- Chapter 16. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool
- Chapter 17. LinkOut: Linking to External Resources from Entrez Databases
- Chapter 18. The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Database
- Chapter 19. Gene: A Directory of Genes
- Chapter 20. Using the Map Viewer to Explore Genomes
- Chapter 21. UniGene: A Unified View of the Transcriptome
- Chapter 22. The Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs) Database: Phylogenetic Classification of Proteins from Complete Genomes
- Part 4. User Support
- Glossary