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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>IAPril Information
Workshops</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Learn how to find and use
information more effectively in these hands-on workshops.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>WHERE:</b> 14N-132 (Digital
Instruction Resource Center - DIRC)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>WHEN:</b> In April, every
Wednesday in April at 5, and every Friday in April, 12pm
(noon)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Wed., 4/18 @ 5-6: Flavors of
Citation Searching</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Have you ever used Web of Science to
do find citations? Have you used Google Scholar? Ever used
citation links in journal articles? This session will explore
the different ways you can use the citation searching method for
identifying literature on a subject to benefit of your research.
The concept of citation searching has been around for over 50 years,
but it has evolved with technology. Several examples will be
given, and we would enjoy hearing about your own techniques.
Food and drink will be provided.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Fri., 4/20 @ 12-1: Copyright and
Scholarly Publication: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of
Research</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Can you use and re-use your own work
for future writing and teaching? Or is it locked tight behind a
vault of copyright restrictions? This session will help you find
the keys to fully realize the potential of your own work for yourself
and the world. It will provide a very brief summary of copyright law
and how it affects your work, and an overview of actions you can take
to improve the impact and reach of your research - including why
retaining rights to your work matters, and how you can take advantage
such rights to increase citation and readership.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Janet,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Here is some information for
postdocs. We are delighted to be able to offer these courses
free of charge. Signups are limited to 20, and you must sign up
in advance.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF">Louisa Worthington
Rogers</font><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences
Librarian</font></font><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">M.I.T. Science Library
14S-134</font></font><font color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">Cambridge, MA 02139</font></font><font
color="#0000FF"><br>
<font face="Arial" size="-1">elworthi@mit.edu</font></font></div>
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color="#993333"><b>NCBI Bioinformatics Mini-Courses: May
10-11</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">The MIT Libraries will sponsor a series of 4
NCBI bioinformatics mini-courses on May 10-11, 2007 in the Hayden
Library DIRC, 14N-132. Each course is 2.5 hours in length, including a
lecture followed by a 1-hour hands-on session. To register, send your
name, name of course(s), department, affiliation, and email address to
Louisa Worthington Rogers (elworthi@mit.edu). There is a limit of 20
attendees per course.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1" color="#800000"><b>Thursday,
May 10:</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"><b>9:30-12:00 - Making
Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences</b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
In this mini-course, we will find a gene within a eukaryotic DNA
sequence. We will then predict the function of the implied protein
product by seeking sequence similarities to proteins of documented
function using BLAST and other tools. Finally, we will find a 3D
modeling template for this protein sequence using a Conserved Domain
Database Search.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"><b>1:00-3:30 - Entrez Gene
Quick Start</b></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><br>
</font><font face="Arial">In this course, we will use NCBI 's Entrez
Gene (</font><a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene"><font
face="Arial">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene</font
></a><font face="Arial">) to learn how to obtain information about a
human gene such as its mRNA and genomic sequence, gene structure
(exon-intron locations), function and phenotypes associated with
mutations. We will also learn how to determine whether the SNPs in the
coding region of a gene are known to alter the function of the protein
product.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1" color="#800000"><b>Friday,
May 11:</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"><b>9:30-12:00 - Structural
Analysis Quick Start</b></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><br>
</font><font face="Arial">This course covers how to visualize and
annotate 3D protein structures using NCBI's Cn3D, identify conserved
domain(s) present in a protein, seach for other proteins containing
similar domain(s), explore a 3D modeling template for the query
protein and find distant sequence homologs that may not be identified
by BLAST.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"><b>1:00-3:30 - Mapviewer
Quick Start</b></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><br>
</font><font face="Arial">In this course, we will use the human genome
Map Viewer (</font><a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/"><font
face="Arial">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/</font></a><font
face="Arial">). Used to view the NCBI assembly of the complete human
genome, Map Viewer is a valuable tool for the identification and
localization of genes that contribute to human disease. In this
course, we will see how to view different human genome maps and make
best use of them. We will learn to locate a human gene, download its
sequence along with its upstream sequence (to analyze promoter
regions), obtain exon-intron coordinates, find a possible splice
variant and identify whether the variations in the gene are associated
with a disease.</font></div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="+1"><b>About the
Instructors:</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Simin Assadi and Steve Pechous are biologists
on the User Services staff of the National Center for Biotechnology
Information.</font></div>
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