NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION
Short Course 2007
Presented by Biologists on the User Services staff of the NCBI
Hosted by the Program in Bioinformatics, Department of Human Genetics & Health Sciences Library
   
 

Thursday, September 20, 2007

A Field Guide to NCBI Resources
A lecture in Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB) Auditorium from
9am-12 noon & hands-on computer workshop from 1:30-4 pm in the Learning Resource Center 3rd Level
Taubman Medical Library Building, 1135 E. Catherine.
The workshop will cover GenBank and related databases covering effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Principals of Pubchem
A 3 hour course including lecture from 9:00 -11:30 am and a computer session from 1:30-4:30 pm in 2802 Medical Science Building 2. For information on content, go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/PubChem/course.html

October 4 & 5, 2007

MINI COURSES
NCBI bioinformatics mini-courses are problem based.
For information on content, go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/minicourses/

Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences, October 4, 2007 @ 9am-12noon
Correlating Disease Genes and Phenotypes, October 4, 2007 @ 1:30-4:30pm
Structural Analysis QuickStart, October 5, 2007 @ 9am-12noon
Microbial Genomes QuickStart, October 5, 2007 @ 1-4pm

 The courses are 3 hours in length with first hour and half devoted to an overview that is followed by an hour and half hands-on computer session.  All Mini Courses will be in 2802 Medical Science Building 2