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Intended Audience:

The course is designed for principal investigators, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and advanced undergraduate students and others who work with biological sequence data. Both experienced and novice users of NCBI's tools and resources will benefit.

ATTENTION: The course is limited to members of the Notre Dame community due to budget constraints.

Registration:

All hands-on sessions are full/closed. The lecture is still open. Please register for the lecture.

The course is free but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Workshop sessions are optional.  Lecture attendance is a mandatory prerequisite for any workshop session.

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.

The course has two parts: a 3-hour morning lecture followed by optional 2-hour instructor led computer workshops in the afternoon. Additional workshops are available on the following day. Due to the limited number of workstations, multiple workshops will be offered on two dates in order to accommodate as many people as possible. The same content is covered in each workshop.

Note: Workshop sessions are limited to 23 people per session and we expect them to fill up quickly.

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