Q: The NCBI houses a series of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine and is an important resource for bioinformatics tools and services. Major databases include GenBank for DNA sequences and PubMed, a bibliographic database for the biomedical literature. Other databases include the NCBI Epigenomics database. All these databases are available online through the Entrez search engine.

NCBI was directed by David Lipman, one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment program and a widely respected figure in bioinformatics. He also leads an intramural research program, including groups led by Stephen Altschul (another BLAST co-author), David Landsman, Eugene Koonin (a prolific author on comparative genomics), John Wilbur, Teresa Przytycka, and Zhiyong Lu. David Lipman stood down from his post in May 2017.

NCBI is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.

NCBI has had responsibility for making available the GenBank DNA sequence database since 1992. GenBank coordinates with individual laboratories and other sequence databases such as those of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ).

Since 1992, NCBI has grown to provide other databases in addition to GenBank. NCBI provides Gene, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the Molecular Modeling Database (3D protein structures), dbSNP (a database of single-nucleotide polymorphisms), the Reference Sequence Collection, a map of the human genome, and a taxonomy browser, and coordinates with the National Cancer Institute to provide the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project. The NCBI assigns a unique identifier (taxonomy ID number) to each species of organism.

1. David Lipman
2. BLAST sequence alignment program
3. Yes
4. bioinformatics
5. Stephen Altschul
6. sequence alignment program
7. comparative genomics
8. Six
9. Yes
10. May 2017
11. making available the GenBank DNA sequence database
12. 1992
13. Yes
14. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
15. Yes
16. Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
17. taxonomy ID number
18. NCBI
19. NCBI

Numbered questions:
1. Who was the director of NCBI?
2. What did he write?
3. He he a respected person?
4. In what?
5. Who helped write BLAST?
6. What kind of program does David run?
7. What does Eugene Koonin write about?
8. How many groups are in the intramural research program?
9. Is John Wilbur a leader of one?
10. When did Lipman quit?
11. What does the NCBI do?
12. When did they start that?
13. Do they have other databases?
14. Who do they work with?
15. Do they work with any cancer organizations?
16. for what?
17. What does every species get?
18. Who gives them out?
19. What is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories?

Q: Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to master, but an elephant in a South Korean zoo is making a good start.

Koshik, a 22-year-old Asian elephant has stunned experts and his keepers at Everland Zoo near Seoul by imitating human speech. Koshik can say the Korean words for "hello," "sit down," "no," "lie down" and "good." His trainer, Kim Jong Gap, first started to realize Koshik was mimicking him several years ago.

""In 2004 and 2005, Kim didn't even know that the human voice he heard at the zoo was actually from Koshik," zoo spokesman In Kim In Cherl said. "But in 2006, he started to realize that Koshik had been imitating his voice and mentioned it to his boss."

Why do elephants have hair on their heads?

His boss initially called him "crazy."

Koshik's remarkable antics grabbed the interest of an elephant vocalization expert thousands of kilometers away at the University of Vienna in Austria.

""There was a YouTube video about Koshik vocalizing, and I was not sure if it was a fake, or if it was real," Dr. Angela Stoeger-Horwath said. She traveled with fellow expert Dr. Daniel Mietchen to South Korea in 2010 to test the elephant's ability. They recorded Koshik repeating certain words his keeper said and then played them for native Korean speakers to see, if they were recognizable.

"It is, for some of the sounds he makes, quite astonishing for how similar they are," said Mietchen of the University of Jena in Germany. "For instance the word 'choa' (meaning good) -- if you hear it right after what the keeper says -- it's quite similar."

1. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. What grabbed expert's interest?

Q: MAMONI VALLEY PRESERVE, Panama (CNN) -- A famed primatologist says the plight of chimpanzees helped inspire Michael Jackson to write the song "Heal the World."

Michael Jackson loved chimpanzees, said Jane Goodall: "They made him smile."

But the theme and the lyrics of the song turned out to be about a better world for humanity.

"He wrote what he told me he thought was his most powerful song ever, but it didn't end up for animals," Jane Goodall said in a CNN interview Thursday night.

Goodall spoke exclusively to CNN in a Panamanian rain forest where she is exploring a partnership on behalf of Roots & Shoots, her global youth education program.

The interview comes as a new version of the song, first released on Jackson's 1991 "Dangerous" album, is being recorded by a collection of artists for release in late October.

Goodall became friends with Jackson about 20 years ago when he invited her to his Neverland Ranch, where "he talked about his dreams for the place to have animals running, looking free like they would in the wild. ... It was just a very charming day, very low key, nobody else was there," she said.

Goodall, famous for her 50 years of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Africa, said Jackson invited her because "he loved what I did."

"He loved chimpanzees," she said. "He loved to watch them feeding. He liked their faces. They made him smile."

Years later, she met Jackson's chimp, Bubbles, and has visited him at his retirement refuge in Florida, she said.

1. Michael Jackson
2. "They made him smile."
3. Jane Goodall
4. Yes
5. a song
6. "Heal the World."
7. CNN
8. Yes
9. Neverland Ranch
10. research on chimpanzees in Africa
11. October.
12. No
13. "Dangerous"
14. No
15. Yes
16. Bubbles
17. retirement refuge
18. Florida
19. Roots & Shoots

Numbered questions:
1. Who wrote the song this story was about?
2. Why did the singer love monkey?
3. Who did he tell this to?
4. Did the two know each other well?
5. What did the animal serve as inspiration for?
6. What was it called?
7. Who did the scientst speak to on TV?
8. Did the celebrity ask the scientist out anywhere?
9. Where?
10. What was the scientist famous for?
11. When is the new music for this melody being put out?
12. Is it being put out by Mike?
13. What is the name of this piece of work?
14. Is it being worked on by one person?
15. Did MJ have a monkey?
16. What was it's name?
17. Where is that animal now?
18. Where is that refuge located?
19. What nonprofit is the scientist involved with?