Who was the director of NCBI?
David Lipman
What did he write?
BLAST sequence alignment program
He he a respected person?
Yes
In what?
bioinformatics
Who helped write BLAST?
Stephen Altschul
What kind of program does David run?
sequence alignment program
What does Eugene Koonin write about?
comparative genomics
How many groups are in the intramural research program?
Six
Is John Wilbur a leader of one?
Yes
When did Lipman quit?
May 2017
What does the NCBI do?
making available the GenBank DNA sequence database
When did they start that?
1992
Do they have other databases?
Yes
Who do they work with?
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
Do they work with any cancer organizations?
Yes
for what?
Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
What does every species get?
taxonomy ID number
Who gives them out?
NCBI
What is listed in the Registry of  Research Data Repositories?
NCBI