The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) presents A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources, 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.

Now featuring the NCBI assembly and annotation of human, mouse and rat genomes, the updated map viewer genome displays, the new genome-specific BLAST handout.pdfpages, the new NCBI curated conserved domains, and Cn3D 4.1.

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

Ekaterine Adeishvili, Simin Assadi, Medha Bhagwat, Peter Cooper, Virna Dapic, Susan Dombrowski, Chuong Huynh, Emir Khatipov, Wayne Matten, Rana Morris, Steve Pechous, Eric Sayers, and Tao Tao are biologists on the User Services staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

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Revised February 26, 2008

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Write to Peter Cooper