Effective Use of NCBI Tools and Databases

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The Harvard Catalyst, in collaboration with the Countway Library, the Center for Cancer Computational Biology and the Harvard School of Public Health Bioinformatics Core presents: Effective use of the NCBI tools and databases.

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 molecular biology databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources.

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

Only 1 lecture plus 1 lab session is needed.

Dates:

Day 1 - December 16, 2009

• 9-Noon lecture (Capacity = 50) and pick one of the following lab sessions
• Lab A: 1-3 pm hands-on lab (Capacity = 25)
• Lab B: 3-5 pm hands-on lab (Capacity = 25)

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Day 2 - December 17, 2009

• 9-Noon lecture (Capacity = 50) and pick one of the following lab sessions
• Lab A: 1-3 pm hands-on lab (Capacity = 25)
• Lab B: 3-5 pm hands-on lab (Capacity = 25)

Location:

Lecture sessions will be held at the Tosteson Medical Education Center Room 109; 260 Longwood Ave, Boston http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/about/location-and-directions/

Lab sessions will be held at the Countway Library of Medicine Room 403; 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA https://www.countway.harvard.edu/menuNavigation/aboutCountway/directions.html

Registration requirements and details:

• Lecture attendance is a prerequisite to the lab session
• $50 (total) registration fee to cover host administrative costs. The NCBI does not charge a fee for this training.

Deadline for registration:

December 15, 2009

Contact Persons:

• HSPH: Leah Segal, lsegal {at} hsph.harvard.edu
• Countway: David Osterbur, david_osterbur {at} hms.harvard.edu
• Dana: Joan Coraccio, joana_coraccio {at} dfci.harvard.edu

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2009/2010 Center for Cancer Computational Biology Seminar Series

Seminars presented the third Thursday of every month, 3:30 pm, Smith 964

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