National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Training

NCBI Training at UC Davis: July 12 and 13, 2005

The UC Davis General Library is hosting the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) course “A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources” at UC Davis on Tuesday July 12 and Wednesday 13, 2005. UC Davis faculty, students, and staff will have priority. Register now

The NCBI course is a lecture and hands-on computer workshop covering effective use of the Entrez databases (including GenBank) and search services. Please see Topics Covered below for additional topics the course will address. Detailed information about the course is available from the NCBI Training Center.

The course is free but registration is required.

Course Description

The course consists of a three hour lecture in the morning (July 12), followed by a two hour computer workshop either that afternoon or in the morning or afternoon of the following day (July 13).

Attendance at the lecture is required in order to attend a computer workshop.

Registration

UC Davis faculty, students, and staff who register before July 1, 2005 will receive priority. NCBI Course is full, registrations are no longer being accepted.

Topics Covered

• 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
• 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