Using NCBI Genome, Assembly, and Gene to Access Genome Sequences and Annotations

12 May Using NCBI Genome, Assembly, and Gene to Access Genome Sequences and Annotations

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.

In this NCBI workshop, you will learn how NCBI processes genome-level data and produces annotation through the prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome annotation pipelines. You will find, browse, and download genome-level data for your organism of interest and for environmental and organismal metagenomes using the Genome, BioProject and Assembly resources. In addition to assembled and annotated data, you will retrieve and download draft whole genome shotgun and read-level next-gen sequencing data from the Nucleotide and Sequence Read Archive (SRA) databases. You will access results of precomputed analyses of genomes, as well as perform your own analyses of assembled and unassembled genomic data using NCBI’s genome BLAST and SRA-BLAST services.

This session includes hands-on instruction.

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.