NCBI Courses

NCBI Courses are a great way for researchers, students, librarians, and teachers to keep up with the ongoing enhancements made to NCBI’s molecular biology resources.
The courses are offered free of charge at NCBI and at universities and research institutes throughout the United States. For detailed course descriptions and schedules of upcoming courses, see the NCBI Education Homepage at:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education

Enhanced Field Guide Course

March 29-30, 2007

NCBI, Bethesda, MD

This course is intended for biologists who desire a more in-depth look at the NCBI resources than can be provided in the standard Field Guide.

To register, and for more information:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/Field Guide/FGPlus

A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources

April 25, 2007—at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

May 3, 2007—at the University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

May 10, 2007—9 AM-5PM at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

The Field Guide is 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.

To register, and for more information:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/Field Guide

NCBI Mini Course

May 2—3, 2007 at the Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY.

May 10—11, 2007 at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

May 15—16, 2007 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA

NCBI bioinformatics mini-courses are either problem-based, such as "Identification of Disease Genes" or NCBI resource-based such as "BLAST Quick Start". The courses are 2.5 hours in length with the first hour-and-a-half devoted to an overview that is followed by a one-hour hands-on session.

To register, and for more information:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/minicourses/minischedule.html

NCBI Powerscripting Course

April 24—27, 2007 at NCBI, Bethesda, MD

This 4-day course including both lectures and computer workshops on effectively using the NCBI Entrez Programming Utilities (E-utilities) within scripts to automate search and retrieval operations across the entire suite of Entrez databases.

To register, and for more information: