DIMACS Short Course: A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources
April 11, 2007
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers:
- Tamar Barkay, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, barkay@AESOP.Rutgers.edu
- Nicholas Beckloff, UMDNJ, beckloni@umdnj.edu
- Paul Ehrlich, BIOMAPS Institute, pehrlich@lutece.rutgers.edu
- Mel Janowitz, DIMACS, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu
- Tara Matise, Department of Genetics, matise@biology.rutgers.edu
Presented by The National Center for Biotechnology Information, the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University,
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology of Rutgers University, the DIMACS/BioMaPS/MB Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology and the BIOMAPS Institute for Quantitative Biology.
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.
Further information about NCBI may be found at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For the most updated information about the NCBI course description see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/FieldGuide/
Now featuring the NCBI assembly and annotation of human and mouse genomes,
the updated map viewer genome displays, the new genome-specific BLAST
pages, the new NCBI curated conserved domains, and Cn3D 4.1.
Topics covered will include:
- 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
- Local Alignment Statistics
- 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 Gene
- UniGene
- Variation Data (SNPs)
- The NCBI Human Genome
- The Map Viewer
- Mouse and Other Genomes
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