library

A place in which reading materials, such as books, periodicals, and newspapers, and often other materials such as musical and video recordings, are kept for use or lending.

A collection of such materials, especially when systematically arranged.

A room in a private home for such a collection.

An institution or foundation maintaining such a collection.

A set of things similar to a library in appearance, function, or organization, especially.

A series of books issued by a publisher.

A collection of standard routines used in computer programs, usually stored as an executable file.

A collection of cloned DNA sequences whose location and identity can be established by mapping the genome of a particular organism.

A collection of proteins generated from the collected DNA sequences that express them, used for tracking metabolic functions of proteins in diseases such as cancer, for the synthesis of new drugs, and for other proteomics research.