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In June 2021, the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library partnered with NCBI to offer a series of 4 virtual workshops on NCBI resources. More about these sessions and access to the handouts and recordings are below.
The use of genetic testing in patient care is becoming more common in clinical practice. NCBI has long had resources for biologists to explore what is known about genomes, genes and genetic variations, but has recently developed clinically-focused resources. This online, interactive workshop was designed for those involved in clinical practice and/or translational research.
This online, interactive workshop focused on NCBI’s web-based resources for accessing and analyzing genome assemblies and annotation data, with an emphasis on nonhuman organisms. It covered several NCBI databases, including Genome, Assembly, BioProject, Taxonomy, Gene, and SRA. It also briefly discussed NCBI’s analysis and standalone tools, such as the Genome Data Viewer (GDV), SRA Toolkit and MagicBLAST.
This virtual workshop highlighted new displays and features and introduced best practices for use of NCBI BLAST services. It covered when and how to use important but often misunderstood aspects of the BLAST programs, specialized services, and databases. It explored other important sequence analysis services, including Primer BLAST, an oligonucleotide primer designer and specificity checker, and COBALT, a multiple protein sequence alignment tool. Finally, it included brief demonstrations of standalone BLAST and related tools, including SRAToolkit BLAST and MagicBLAST.
Learn how to tackle bigger biomolecular datasets more reliably with the power of Python programming. This workshop was designed for biologists without programming experience. The examples used genomic, transcript, and protein sequence data, but the programming skills were broadly relevant for all biologists. This online, interactive workshop covered how to:
In October 2018, the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library hosted Peter Cooper and Rana Morris from NCBI for a 2-day NCBI Discovery Workshop. More about these sessions and access to the handouts are below.
In October 2016, the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library hosted Wayne Matten from NCBI for a 2.5-day NCBI Discovery Workshop. More about these sessions and access to the handouts are below.
In May 2015, the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library and Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics hosted Peter Cooper from NCBI for a 2-day NCBI Discovery Workshop. More about these sessions and access to the handouts are below.
In May 2012, the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library and Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics hosted Peter Cooper from NCBI for a 2-day NCBI Discovery Workshop. More about these sessions is below.