NCBI App

NCBI App is an independent app by Mynimalistic. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NCBI, the U.S. National Library of Medicine or the NIH. All content loads live from public NCBI websites and services.

Everything researchers, students and clinicians use at NCBI — PubMed, PMC, BLAST, Gene, Nucleotide, Protein, Taxonomy, ClinVar, dbSNP, MeSH, Bookshelf, GEO, SRA and more — in one fast app designed for your phone.

🔎 ONE SEARCH FOR ALL OF NCBI
• Search any NCBI database from a single search bar
• Paste an ID and jump straight to the record: PMID, PMCID, DOI, RefSeq and GenBank accessions, rsIDs, ClinVar, GEO, SRA, BioProject, BioSample and genome assemblies
• Recent searches and smart suggestions

📰 YOUR DAILY RESEARCH FEED
• Follow any topic — a disease, gene, method or author
• The newest PubMed papers for each topic, updated every day
• "NEW" badges show what has appeared since your last visit
• Optional daily digest reminder at a time you choose
• Free full-text papers clearly marked

📑 BUILT FOR READING PAPERS
• One-tap citations in APA, MLA, AMA and NLM styles
• Export RIS for Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote
• Jump to free full text, similar articles and "cited by"
• Download PMC PDFs and read them offline in the built-in reader
• Save any article, gene or record to your library, with your own notes
• Find in page, adjustable text size and a dark reading mode

🧬 A LAB BENCH IN YOUR POCKET (WORKS OFFLINE)
• Sequence toolkit: reverse complement, complement, transcribe, translate in all six frames and find the longest ORF
• GC content, melting temperature, molecular weight and base composition
• BLAST your sequence or result in one tap
• Standard codon table with amino-acid lookup
• Quick access to Primer-BLAST, ORFfinder, CD-Search, Genome Data Viewer, Variation Viewer and Datasets

🌐 A REAL BROWSER, MADE FOR NCBI
• Tabs, back and forward, share, copy link, and long-press links to open them in a new tab
• Select any text on a page to search it in NCBI or PubMed instantly
• Select text in any other app and choose "Search NCBI"
• Share a link, ID or sequence to NCBI App from any app
• NCBI links can open straight in the app
• Upload FASTA files into BLAST from your phone

🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no ads, no trackers
• Your library, notes, history and downloads stay on your device

Who is it for? Biology and medical students, researchers, bioinformaticians, clinicians, and anyone who reads the biomedical literature.

Content is provided for research and education only and is not medical advice. NCBI content remains subject to NCBI's policies and the copyright of its authors and publishers.

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