input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. 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. 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?
numbered_answers: 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

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER IX.THE MAD ELEPHANT.

From Middletown the circus went to Dover, and then to Grasscannon.

At each of these places a big business was done, and at every performance Leo did better.

The young gymnast became a great favorite with all but two people in the "Greatest Show on Earth."

These two people were Jack Snipper, who remained as overbearing as ever, and Jack Broxton, the fellow discharged for intoxication.

Broxton had been following up the circus ever since his discharge, in the vain hope of being reinstated.

But the rules in the "Greatest Show on Earth" are very strict, and no intoxication is allowed.

After leaving Grasscannon, the circus struck up through New York State, and at the end of the week arrived at Buffalo.

It was while at this place that Broxton tried to play a dangerous trick upon Leo.

He met the young gymnast on the street one night after the performance.

He was under the influence of liquor at the time, and in his pocket he carried what is known by the boys as a giant torpedo.

As Leo turned a corner he threw the torpedo at Leo's feet.

Luckily the torpedo failed to explode.

Had it gone off the young gymnast would have been sadly crippled.

"You rascal!" cried Leo, and he made for Broxton and landed him in the gutter.

Some of the other performers then came up.

"What's the row, Leo?"

"Look what Broxton threw at me," he replied, and handed the torpedo around for inspection. 1. Who was kicked out for being drunk?
2. Did he like Leo?
3. Who else did not like him?
4. True or False: Leo was steadily improving.
5. Where did the circus go after Middletown?
6. And after Grasscannon?
7. What did someone throw at Leo?
8. Who threw it?
9. Where did it land?
10. Did Leo fight Broxton?
11. Who went in the gutter?
12. Who came up and saw the torpedo?
13. What was Leo's role in the circus?
14. What was the circus called?
15. True or False: Broxton hoped to get his job back.
16. For how long had he been trying to make that happen?
17. Was he drunk when he threw the torpedo?
18. True or False: The torpedo exploded.
19. What did Leo call Broxton?
20. Would could have happened to Leo?
numbered_answers:
1. Broxton
2. no
3. Jack Snipper
4. true
5. Dover
6. New York State
7. giant torpedo
8. Broxton
9. at Leo's feet
10. yes
11. Broxton
12. other performers
13. gymnast
14. Greatest Show on Earth
15. true
16. ever since his discharge
17. yes
18. False
19. rascal
20. he would have been crippled