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   Course Description

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) presents A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources, a lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases covering effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources.

Now featuring the 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.

Topics:
  • GenBank Database: description and scope
  • The NCBI Derivative Databases: RefSeqs
  • Database Searching using Entrez
    • Neighboring and Links
    • Entrez searching
  • The NCBI Structures Database
    • The Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB)
    • Structural Alignments
    • Viewing Structures and Structural Alignments with Cn3D
  • Similarity Searching using NCBI BLAST
    • Local Alignment Statistics
    • Scoring Systems
    • Using BLAST web services
    • PSI-BLAST
    • RPS-BLAST (CDD Search)
    • Specialized BLAST pages
  • Genomic Resources at NCBI
    • Complete Microbial Genomes in Entrez
    • Higher Genome Resources
      • RefSeq and Genes
      • UniGene
      • Variation Data (SNPs)
      • The Human, Mouse and Rat genomes
      • The Map Viewer
      • Other Genomes

   How to attend the course

The course is offered four times a year at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The course is free and is open to anyone who would like to attend. More...

We also offer the course at more than 40 other locations throughout the US.
You can host the course at your institution. More...

Upcoming Courses:

Oct 6The University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Oct 13The Centers for Disease Control
Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 19The University of Southern California
Los Angeles
Oct 27Harvard University
and Harvard Medical School
Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nov 1The National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland
 More...
If you would like to host a course write to Peter Cooper for more information.

   About the Instructors

Medha Bhagwat, Peter Cooper, Susan Dombrowski, Andrei Gabrielian, Chuong Huynh, Wayne Matten, Rana Morris, Steve Pechous, Vyvy Pham, Eric Sayers, and Tao Tao are biologists on the User Services staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

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Revised October 20, 2004

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