In March, the Health Sciences Library is pleased to sponsor the Field Guide for GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
This lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases will cover effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources. Additional course content details are provided on the NCBI website.
Presenter: Peter Cooper, biologist on the User Services staff of NCBI
When: Wednesday 3/12/08 and Thursday 3/13/08 (UNC Spring Break week)
The course will include a 3 hour lecture at 9AM on Wednesday, March 12, followed by a recommended but optional 2 hour hands-on workshop. Multiple sessions of the hands-on workshop will be offered on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, March 13.
Where: The lecture will be held in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building (School of Social Work) Auditorium (Map/Directions). Hands-on workshops will be held in campus library computer labs and participants will be notified of their workshop's location closer to the event.
This NCBI Field Guide course offering is part of the Health Sciences Library on-going Basic Bioinformatics Tools Forum series.
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