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As computing technology advances and new sources of valuable biological information are collected the numbers of database and the tools that are used to analyze the data they contain will change. From the time this article was originally written to the time (about 6 months) this summary was put together another 4 releases of Genbank have been made available, two new BLAST search engines, PHI-BLAST and organism-specific BLAST, a database of Human Genetic Variation (dbSNP), and a new version of Cn-3D. The NCBI will, for the forseeable future, provide the research community with a wealth of information and computing tools. made a number of other tools available for molecular biologists.