19 May Navigating NCBI Molecular Data Using the Integrated Entrez System and BLAST
850 Republican St
Seattle, WA 98109
USA
ITHS, the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, Fred Hutch, and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region are pleased to host five free NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) workshops on June 14 and 15, 2016, in Seattle, Washington, and online.
This workshop provides an introduction to the NCBI molecular databases and how to access the data using the Entrez text-based search system and BLAST sequence similarity search tool. You will learn the varied types of available molecular data, and how to find and display sequence, variation, genome information using organism sources (Taxonomy), data sources (Bioproject), and emphasizing the central role of the gene as an organizing concept to navigate across the integrated databases (Gene, Nucleotide, Protein, dbSNP, and other resources)
*It is recommended that attendees bring their own laptops or tablets to this workshop
Speaker Biography
Bonnie Maidack, PhD, is a member of the Public Services Section at NCBI and enjoys helping others learn how to use NCBI resources. She started her career path of biological information service while working on the OMIM database at Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library in Baltimore, Maryland. Four years later, she moved to the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) then located at UIUC and later at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan and began curating prokaryotic ribosomal RNA sequence data. Bonnie relocated to Maryland approximately 15 years ago to start curating Reference Sequence Project data at NCBI, in Bethesda, Maryland. Bonnie Maidak earned a B.S. in biology degree from Virginia Tech, a Ph.D. in medical genetics from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and a M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Registration
There is no cost to attend this event, but seating is limited. Please register below if you plan to attend. Not an ITHS member? Signing up to become a member will take less than two minutes.
