Microplastic "A threat to human life"

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     Plastics: A life threatening problem Plastic is one of the life threatening problem of world. Now, the situation is out of the neck on garbage management issue.  Microplastics in drinking water :- Microplastics are every where in our environment it have been detected in marine water, wastewater, fresh water , food air and drinking water, both bottled and tap water. Microplastics enter freshwater environment in a number of ways :-  Image 1 primarily from surface run-off and wastewater effluent (both treated and untreated),  but also from combined sewer overflows,  industrial effluent degraded plastic waste and atmospheric deposition. The limited evidence show that some microplastics found in drinking water may come from treatment and distribution system for tap water and bottling or bottled water.

Application of NCBI?

 National Center of Biotechnological  Information (NCBI) 

The National Center for Biotechnology information (NCBI) is a part of the US National library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH). The NCBI houses a series of database including GenBank PubMed, BLAST relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine and is an important resource for bioinformatics tools and services. All these databases are available online through the search engine.


Overview of NCBI uses

       I.          GenBank:-

The GenBank sequence database is an open access, annotates collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequence and their protein translations. It is produced and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI); a part of National Institute of Health in US, as part of the International Nucleotide sequence database collaboration.

    II.          Protein Databank:-

PDB is a database for the 3D structural data of large biological molecule, such as proteins and Nucleic acids. The data, typically obtained by X-ray crystallography NMR, or increasingly, Cryo electron microscopy, and submitted by biologist and biochemical from around the world, are freely accessible on internet. It is a collection of sequence from several source including translations from annotated coding regions in GenBank, RefSeq and TPA, as well as records from Swisport, PIR, PRF and PDB.

III.          PubMed:-

PubMed central is free full text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at U.S NIH/NLM – PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from medicine, life science journal and online Books.

 IV.          MeSH:-

Medical Subject Heading is the NLM controlled Vocabulary the Journal used for indexing articles for PubMed.

    V.          dbSNP:-

It consist Human SNPs, micro-satellite and small-scale insertions/deletions along with genome mapping and information.


 

 

 

 

 


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