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The National Center for Biotechnology Information presents "A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources," a lecture and computer workshop designed to keep biology researchers abreast of enhancements in molecular bioinformatics resources.
Biological sequence and structure information are now used in nearly every field of biological research. A working knowledge of these resources and standard computational biology tools are an essential part of every biologist's toolkit. Keeping up with these databases and tools, however, can be challenging.
In order to help researchers keep abreast of enhancements and the increasing diversity of NCBI molecular biology resources, USC and the NCBI service desk provides this training program for biologists on the effective use of NCBI databases and tools.
The course consists of two components: a three-hour lecture providing detailed background on NCBI databases and an optional two-hour hands-on practicum featuring biologically interesting examples that highlight key features of the NCBI resources.
GenBank and related databases covering the effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources will all be covered during this event. Workshop content will also include resource updates of the past year, including NCBI assembly and annotation of human, mouse and rat genomes, the updated map viewer genome displays, the new genome-specific BLAST pages, the new NCBI curated conserved domains, and Cn3D 4.1.
NCBI representatives Wayne Matten and Steve Pechous will administer the workshop.
Registration for this workshop is required.
The optional computer training workshops are available at various times in the Norris Medical Library, Computer Classroom.
Session 1 – Tuesday, October 11; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Session 2 - Tuesday, October 11; 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m
Session 3 - Wednesday, October 12; 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m
Session 4 - Wednesday, October 12; 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Session 5 - Wednesday, October 12; 1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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