In addition to the Redesign for PubMed there is also a new look to the NCBI homepage. It is currently available as a preview site. Check it out: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/
This new page has organized the NCBI resources into categories. The new homepage also contains a How To section in the center of the page, similar to a FAQ, linking to detailed steps that answer the question. Wondering what resources relate to Genetics & Medicine? It is easy to find them from this new page. Feedback is appreciated and encouraged.
All NCBI pages, including PubMed, will have a new footer that will provide several links in categories such as Getting Started, Resources, Popular and Featured.

Remember you can be kept up to date with NCBI activities and resources by reading the NCBI News that comes out monthly or subscribing to one of the e-mail lists http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/Summary/email_lists.html or RSS feeds http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/

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Are you curious about new NCBI resources? Want to stay informed about changes and updates? The NCBI newsletter, NCBI News, is where you can learn about new developments at NCBI. It is published electronically on a monthly basis. Each issue has a section for a Featured Resource, New Databases and Tools, GenBank News, Updates and Enhancements and Announce Lists and RSS Feeds.

Recent topics include the new database Biosystems, 2009 H1N1 Influenza Sequences, updates to PubChem, BLAST and the new discovery components in PubMed.  Check out the February, March and June issues to read about the Discovery Initiative and the related discovery components: Sensors, Database Ads and Analysis Tools. These components display with search results in the literature databases such as PubMed and sequence databases such as Entrez Protein.

The newsletter can be downloaded as a .pdf document or viewed in NCBI Bookshelf, where you can easily search for a specific topic. Here’s the direct link to the latest issue (August 2009): NCBI News-August 2009

In addition to the newsletter NCBI offers additional options to stay informed about changes and developments:

• Choose from a list of topic specific e-mail list-servs: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/Summary/email_lists.html
• Subscribe to NCBI-Announce (the latest issue of NCBI is announced here): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce_submit.html
• Subscribe to RSS feeds, available for NCBI Announce and others: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/
• View a brief summary of What’s New: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/whatsnew.html

The NLM Technical Bulletin also posts news, updates and changes to NLM resources that may not be included in NCBI. It is managed by the Medlars Management Section and contains frequent posts about PubMed: Chronological list of PubMed postings.

There are many resources available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Recently a new Database called Biosystems was added. Biosystems is an Entrez database that collects information on interacting sets of biomolecules involved in metabolic and signaling pathways, disease states, and other biological processes. (more…)