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November 17, 2010

NCBI Training Handouts Available

As announced in the previous blog entry, the NCBI will be offering training on it's resources Dec. 15-16, 2010. If you can't make the workshops, which will be presented on the UIC campus in Chicago, you may want to review the PowerPoint presentation.

It looks like the UIC materials will eventually show up here:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/

But in the meantime, feel free to look at the materials from the Discovery sessions that were held at NYU in October!
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/NYU_Oct/

You'll find materials for the four sessions...
1. Sequences, Genomes and Maps
2. Proteins, Domains and Structures
3. NCBI BLAST Services
4. Human Variation and Disease Genes

E.g., here's the Powerpoint from the Proteins, Structures, Domains lecture, available as a ppt file:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/NYU_Oct/Oct18/Proteins_Domains_Structures/Proteins_Domains_Structures_slides.ppt

or, as notes file (pdf) (same lecture):
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/education/discovery_workshops/Regional/2010/NYU_Oct/Oct18/Proteins_Domains_Structures/Proteins_Domains_Structures_slides.pdf

... and so forth!

Posted by florador at 2:40 PM

NCBI Training Opportunity... at UIC

Note: These workshops will be offered on the UIC campus, NOT the Champaign-Urbana campus! The NCBI has cut back on their training opportunities and now only does outreach to regional facilities.

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The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Discovery Workshops focusing on biomedical and genomic databases this December. This free two-day series of workshops on NCBI tools will be held at UIC on December 15-16, 2010.

Program Overview
The Discovery Workshops consist of four 2.5-hour hands-on sessions emphasizing a different set of NCBI resources. Each session uses specific examples to highlight important features of the resources and tools under study and to demonstrate how to accomplish common tasks.

The four sessions of the Discovery Workshop will focus on the following areas:
1. Sequences, Genomes and Maps
2. Proteins, Domains and Structures
3. NCBI BLAST Services
4. Human Variation and Disease Genes

Participants may attend all or any combination of these sessions. Each session is entirely hands-on and is presented in one computer classroom where the instructor will present a specific example using the live NCBI web site followed by a period of individual practice on related problems.

Detailed handouts for each session will provide step-by-step instructions and additional information about each example. Each session will also provide opportunities for participants to provide comments and suggestions on NCBI services and also to attend individual consultations with NCBI staff. [Tip: handouts and presentation materials are available online. See the next blog entry.]

Discovery Workshop Schedule

Day 1 Wednesday December 15, 2010
9:00-11:30 -- Sequences, Genomes and Maps 1:00-3:30 -- Proteins, Domains and Structures 3:45-5:00 -- Individual Consultations *

Day 2 Thursday December 16, 2010
9:00-11:30 -- NCBI BLAST Services
1:00-3:30 -- Human Variation and Disease Genes 3:45-5:00 -- Individual Consultations*

*Anyone registered for any of the sessions is welcome to attend the individual consultations

Instructor:
Peter Cooper. Peter Cooper is a biologist with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) who provides general user support, designs and presents workshops and webinars on the use of NCBI databases and tools, edits the NCBI News, and is involved in ongoing efforts to improve the usability of the NCBI website.

How to Attend
To register for one or more of these workshops, visit this link:
http://tinyurl.com/NCBIWorkshops
The default is to register for the entire two day workshop. If you wish to attend only select sessions, include the date and time of each of the session that you wish to go to. The deadline for registration is Friday, December 10, 2010. SPACE IS LIMITED.

Please feel free to forward this message to interested colleagues and to other lists.

Holly.

Holly Ann Burt, MLIS
Outreach and Exhibits Coordinator
NN/LM-Greater Midwest Region
1750 W. Polk St. M/C 763
Chicago, IL 60612-4330
phone: 800-338-7657 (in the Region) or 312-996-2464
fax: 312-996-2226
haburt@uic.edu
nnlm.gov/gmr

Posted by florador at 2:37 PM

January 26, 2009

Invention to Venture Urbana 2009: Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences!

Welcome to Invention to Venture Urbana 2009: Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences!

Date: February 21, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Chemical Life Sciences Lab (CLSL) auditorium

The Technology Entrepreneur Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a one-day workshop February 21, 2009 on life sciences technology entrepreneurship.

The workshop is intended primarily for college and university students, but is also open to anyone who wants to know more about this very important topic. Presentations will focus on venture capital, marketing, intellectual property, business plans, and related topics in biotech and the life sciences. Guest speakers are experts drawn from the region.

Invention to Venture workshops are held in cooperation with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA).


Cost: BRING A FRIEND AND SAVE $$$! (Must be of same Registration Status)

Students: $15 or 2/$25 (save $5!)
Faculty Members & Staff: $40 or 2/$70 (save $10!)
Alumni: $60 or 2/$110 (save $10!)
Business Community & Other: $75 or 2/$140 (save $10!)

Participant guide, lunch and a continental breakfast are all included in the fee.

For registration, speakers, agenda, etc. please visit the website:
http://www.invention2venture.org/urbana09/

Please note: need-based scholarships for this event are available. Please contact Rhiannon Clifton (rclifton@uiuc.edu) for more information and a brief application.

Posted by florador at 4:36 PM

January 13, 2009

Spring Savvy Researcher Workshops

The Savvy Researcher Workshops are starting up again.
See the listing:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html

These workshops are geared to graduate students in all disciplines, but post-docs, faculty and other researchers are also welcome to attend.
They are designed to be:
* small class size
* hands-on
* quick paced
* one-hour sessions

Among the topics of possible interest to biologists:
* Library Research Skills
* The Grad Student Toolkit
* Drowning in Data? RefWorks can Help
* Journal Impact Factors: How to Identify Key Research in Your Field
* Where's the Money? Finding and Securing Grant Funding
* InfoHacks
* Responsible Scholarship Practices: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity at Illinois
* Your Research Rights: Ownership Awareness to Maximize the Impact
* Practical Copyright: Considerations for Teaching and Research
* Past Writer's Block

For registration information, please visit:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html
and click on the link for the date and time of the workshop(s) you want to attend.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate College

Posted by florador at 5:23 PM

February 26, 2008

NCBI Field Course Will NOT be Held

In January, it was announced that the University of Illinois would be hosting the Field Guide to NCBI Resources Course.

Unfortunately, that tremendous training opportunity will NOT occur. Yesterday NCBI Field Guide coordinator, Peter Cooper, sent the following email:

Because of budgetary constraints, NCBI has made reductions in some of its programs, and the education programs are affected. In fact, all outreach education programs (Field Guide, Mini-courses, Structures, PubChem) are terminated effective immediately. At this point we cannot reschedule this course or accept requests for future courses of any kind. This was as much a surprise to me as it is to you. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.

The Field Course, as well as the Mini-Courses and the Structure course, has been tremendously popular and useful (see list of sites where the Field Course has been offered recently), but the NCBI budget situation will not allow NCBI to continue to travel and offer these courses for the foreseeable future.

If we would have been able to host the Field Course, registratants would have been asked to print out the PowerPoint slides for the 3-hour lecture presentation, and the Workshop exercises ahead of time. Here they are...

Additionally, you may find the following materials of interest, from the Mini-courses and the Structure Course:

Posted by florador at 4:49 PM

December 10, 2007

Coming in April: NCBI Field Course

Save the dates! The NCBI trainers will be returning to campus April 17th-18th to present the Field Course to NCBI Resources. The last time this was presented on Campus in the Fall of 2005, over 200 people registered to attend.

The course will consist of a 3-hour lecture on Thursday morning, April 17th and an optional 2-hour, hands-on computer workshop that will be held Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, and Friday afternoon (typically the workshop is offered 5-6 times).

The course is open to grad students, post docs, faculty, and other researchers. There is no fee to attend, but pre-registration will be required. Non-U of I researchers are also welcome to attend.

Registration for the course will open in February. In the mean time, please keep the dates open. If you are the instructor of a graduate-level course, please feel free to announce the course to your students.

Topics covered in the Field Course:

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

Posted by florador at 2:13 PM

January 25, 2007

NCBI Courses Offered at the U of I in April

The University of Illinois Biotechnology Information Center, a virtual branch of the U of I Library, and the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center are hosting the presentation of two NCBI minicourses and an in-depth course on using the NCBI structure analysis tools. The three courses being offered are:

The two minicourses will be offered on Wednesday, April 4th; they are each 2.5 hours long. The structure course will be offered on Thursday, April 5th, and is 5 hours long.

To learn more about the courses and to register, please follow this link.

Posted by florador at 7:09 PM

December 20, 2006

Spring NCBI Courses

Keep these dates open!

April 4-5, 2007, the NCBI folks will return campus to offer two mini-courses (#6, EntrezGene Quick Start and #11, Microbial Genomes Quick Start), as well as a five-hour Structure Course.

Registration for these classes will be held in the Spring. I will send an email out to the following listservs, informing folks when registration is open:

Note (1/5/2007): At a later date it's also possible they may come back to teach a course about the new PubChem database. Unfortunately, they couldn't squeeze this into their April schedule.

Drop me a line so I can be sure to let you know when registration opens, if you're not among those who regularly receive emails from me via one of these listservs.

Posted by florador at 3:59 PM

September 8, 2006

Fall RefWorks Training

Many of you have inquired about RefWorks workshops...
Here they are!
(Please pass the word to your students, too!)

What is RefWorks?
RefWorks, a Web-based service, allows faculty members and students to create customized databases using online resources and automatically format the content and bibliography of their papers. It also provides quick search and advanced search functions. Read more about it and give it a spin:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/

RefWorks is provided to campus by the Library and CITES and is an alternative to EndNote, etc. One advantage to using it in the lab setting is that multiple people in a lab can access the same account, sharing the same compilation of citations, accessing them from the web as needed when writing a paper.

Who:
These classes may be taken by anyone affiliated with UIUC -- students, faculty, staff. The classes are taught by Joe Straw, Library Central Reference Services. Please contact him if you have questions / concerns < jstraw@uiuc.edu >

When:
RefWorks Basic Workshop
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/RefWorksAnnouncementFlyer.doc
Tuesday 9/12- 1:30pm-3:00pm
Thursday 9/14- 1:30pm-3:00pm
Wednesday 9/20 -12n-1:30pm
Wednesday 9/27- 2:00pm-3:30pm
Thursday 9/28- 11:00am-12:30pm
Tuesday 10/3- 3:00pm-4:30pm
Thursday 10/5- 1:00pm-2:30pm
Wednesday 10/18- 3:00pm-4:30pm

RefWorks Advanced Workshop
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/RefWorksAdvancedAnnounceFlyer.doc
Thursday 11/2- 1:30pm-3:00pm
Wednesday 11/8- 12:00n-1:30pm

Where:
All classes are held in the Undergraduate Library computer lab, Room 291.

Please sign up to reserve your spot:
http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp
Note: these workshops filled very quickly last Spring, so sign up NOW!
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ps.
If you would like to arrange for a separate RefWorks training session for your lab group or department, drop me a line!
Katie
< florador @ uiuc.edu >

Posted by florador at 11:48 AM

August 7, 2006

Announcing: NCBI Course Preference Survey

A survey for UIUC researchers working in fields related to molecular biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology, genomics, etc.

The UIUC Library's Biotechnology Information Center and the UIUC Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center have created a short survey to gauge your interest attending NCBI-related training sessions. A message about registering for the courses will be sent at a later time.

Based on the results of the survey, we will invite NCBI User Services trainers to present 3-5 of their eleven mini-courses and, possibly, their structure course at UIUC this Fall or Spring.

The mini-courses are each 2.5 hours in length. The structure course is up to 5 hours in length. All classes have lecture and hands-on components.

There will be no fee to attend the course(s).

Before you login to take the survey, please visit the NCBI website to learn more about the content of the eleven NCBI mini-courses and the NCBI structure course:
Mini-courses
(In the survey you will be asked to select up to 4 mini-courses that you'd be interested in attending; we'll arrange for the highest vote-getters to be presented at UIUC)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/minicourses/

Structure Course
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/Structure/course.html

Log in to take the survey (you will need your netID and password):
https://webtools.uiuc.edu/survey/OrganizationSecure?id=7296854

The survey will remain open until August 18th.

This note was sent to several academic groups on campus, as well as to those who took the NCBI course last September. Please feel free to tell your colleagues about it, if you didn't get one of the email messages. (And let me know if you'd like to be put on my mailing list!)
Katie Newman... florador@uiuc.edu

Posted by florador at 12:29 PM

February 3, 2006

Spring RefWorks Workshops

Many of you have inquired about RefWorks workshops... Here they are!
Note: these workshops filled very quickly in December, so sign up NOW!

What is RefWorks?
RefWorks, a Web-based service, allows faculty members and students to create customized databases using online resources and automatically format the content and bibliography of their papers. It also provides quick search and advanced search functions. Read more about it and give it a spin:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/

RefWorks is provided to campus by the Library and CITES and is an alternative to EndNote.

Dates:
Basic RefWorks:
Feb 7th, 1:30-3
Feb 8th, 1:30-3
Feb 15th, 3-4:30
Feb 21st, 12-1:30
Feb 22nd, 2-3:30
Mar 2nd, 11-12:30
Mar 15th, 1-2:30
Mar 28th, 3-4:30
Apr 6th, 2-3:30
(other workshop dates may be added...)

Advanced Refworks:
Apr 19th, 12-1:30
Apr 24th, 1:30-3:00

Sign up:
http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp

Posted by florador at 2:30 PM

December 2, 2005

RefWorks Training Sessions

[Sorry! all these sessions are full... but there will be more held in January / February. Stay tuned!]

Passing along an announcement from the Library's Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, Lisa Hinchliffe about some RefWorks training that's available. See below.

But first, a couple of words about RefWorks!

Many of you are familiar with EndNote, but I'd like to urge you to consider telling your students about RefWorks. (Some faculty have already made the switch, too!) Some of it's features:


**** Training Announcement ****

Fulfill Your New Year's Resolution Early!
Put Your Research in Order with RefWorks Citation Software

RefWorks, a Web-based service, allows faculty members and students to create customized databases using online resources and automatically format the content and bibliographies of their papers. (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/) It also provides quick search and advanced search functions. Keep track of your research citations, notes, etc.

Workshops will be held in Undergraduate Library Room 291 multiple times in December! Register at: http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp

Questions? Email Lisa Hinchliffe, ljanicke@uiuc.edu

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
434 Main Library
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, Illinois 61801
217-333-1323 (v)
217-244-4358 (f)
ljanicke@uiuc.edu

Posted by florador at 3:09 PM

July 22, 2005

NCBI Lecture and Hands-On Computer Workshops

A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources:
Lecture and Hands-On Computer Workshops

The UIUC Biotechnology Information Center, a virtual branch of the UIUC Library, and the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center are hosting the NCBI Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources, a lecture and hands-on computer workshop, September 22 - 23, 2005. The series will cover the effective use of Genbank and related databases, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data, and related resources available from the NCBI. Biologists on the User Services staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information will provide the instruction.

Read more and sign up.

Posted by at 11:25 AM