Save time! Improve your search and reference management skills at classes sponsored by the NIH Library.
Classes are free, hands-on, open to NIH/HHS staff, and held in the Training Room on the first floor of the NIH Library. The Library is located near the South Entrance of Building 10.
Registration is required for all classes. To register, click the links under "Class List by Name/Register."
If you are unable to attend a class, consider an individual tutorial. Sign up through the Request a Tutorial webpage.
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CLASS LIST BY NAME/REGISTER
EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
November 3, 2009: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
November 18, 2009: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
December 15, 2009: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Protein Structural Analysis: Binding Sites to Distant Homologs
December 3, 2009: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
PubMed: Understanding the Basics
November 3, 2009: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
PubMed: Understanding the Basics
December 15, 2009: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sequence Similarity Search: BLAST
November 5, 2009: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Web of Science: Mining the Literature
November 18, 2009: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CLASS LIST BY DATE
November 3, 2009
- EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
- PubMed: Understanding the Basics
November 5, 2009
- Sequence Similarity Search: BLAST
November 18, 2009
- PubMed: Understanding the Basics
- Web of Science: Mining the Literature
December 3, 2009
- Protein Structural Analysis: Binding Sites to Distant Homologs
December 15, 2009
- EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
- PubMed: Understanding the Basics
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
EndNote: Managing Your Search Results
EndNote is a reference management tool for finding, downloading and organizing references in a personal, searchable database. With EndNote you can import references from online databases such as PubMed and Web of Science; automatically retrieve article PDFs; search for and edit references; insert references in manuscripts with Microsoft Word's Cite While You Write; create bibliographies; and choose from thousands of journal publishing styles to format references and bibliographies.
Protein Structural Analysis: Binding Sites to Distant Homologs
This course describes how to obtain information about a human gene at all levels of the central dogma of life, genome, transcript and protein, and transcription factors regulating its expression. It also covers information about single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene and which ones are know. This course covers how to visualize and annotate 3D protein structures using NCBI's Cn3D program, identify conserved domain(s) and ligand binding sites in a protein, search 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.
PubMed: Understanding the Basics
Use PubMed to find articles on your research topic in biomedical and scientific journals. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine and preclinical sciences, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system. It includes journal article citations and abstracts from MEDLINE and other sources. Many of the citations lead to full-text articles available online through NIH Library subscription agreements.
Sequence Similarity Search: BLAST
This course offers a practical introduction to nucleotide and protein sequence similarity searching using NCBI's BLAST family of programs. Exercises range from simple searches to creative uses of the BLAST programs.
Web of Science: Mining the Literature
The Web of Science comprises two related electronic resources: Science Citation Index Expanded, which contains citations to articles published in over 5,300 scientific journals and Social Sciences Citation Index, which covers the journal literature of the social sciences indexed from over 1,700 journals. Learn, in this class, how to use the Web of Science to search for articles by subject, author and journal title. You will also learn how to conduct a cited reference search to see who is citing papers in your area of research.
Questions? Email nihlibrary@nih.gov or call Reference & Information Services at 301-496-1080.