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<span class="headlines">A Field Guide to GenBank</span><span class="captions2">®</span><span class="headlines"> and
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NCBI Resources: <br>
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NCBI’s Scientific
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Outreach and Training Program</span></p>
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<span class="bodycopy">Biological sequence and structure information
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are now used in nearly every field of biological research. A working
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knowledge of these resources and standard computational biology tools
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are an essential part of every biologist’s toolkit. However, keeping
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up with these databases and tools can be challenging in this period of
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rapidly changing bioinformatics resources.<br>
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In order to help researchers keep abreast of enhancements and the increasing
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diversity of NCBI molecular biology resources, the NCBI service desk
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provides a free training program for biologists on the effective use
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of NCBI databases and tools. The course, called “A Field Guide
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to GenBank and NCBI Resources”, is designed especially for biologists
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who work at the bench or in the field but use sequence and structure
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data
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in their research. All researchers, educators and students who work
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with biological sequence and structure data should find this to be a
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useful introduction and survey of the available NCBI tools and databases.
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Because of the rapid expansion of the resources, even experienced NCBI
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users will likely learn something new and useful. Five members of the
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NCBI service desk comprise the Field Guide training staff: Peter Cooper,
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Susan Dombrowski, Wayne Matten, Rana
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Morris, and Eric Sayers. All are PhD- level biologists with a broad range
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in the diverse interests and needs of the NCBI user community.<br>
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<p><span class="captions">Figure 1:</span><span class="captions2"> Field
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April 2003. </span><span class="bodycopy"><br>
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</span> <span class="bodycopy"> </span><span class="bodycopy"> </span><span class="bodycopy">
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The course consists of two main components: a three-hour lecture providing
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detailed background on NCBI databases and a two-hour hands-on practicum
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featuring biologically interesting examples that highlight key features
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of the NCBI resources.<br>
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The Field Guide content is flexible and changes often to reflect shifts in emphasis
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and content of the NCBI Web resources. The focus of the Field Guide can also
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be tailored to the specific interests of the audience. Special Field Guides have
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been presented that emphasize resources for marine organisms, insects, and agricultural
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plants. Components of the Field Guide have also been offered as parts of specialized
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short courses and workshops, notably the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s “Computational
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Genomics” course, the Jackson Laboratory’s “Experimental Genetics
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of the Laboratory Mouse in Cancer Research”, the “MR4 Malaria Bioinformatics
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Workshop” at the ATCC, and “the Biology of Parasitism” summer
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course at Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institution. <br>
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In addition to the Field Guide, the training staff also offers more detailed
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modular courses that focus on a particular subset of the NCBI resources. A BLAST
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module is available that provides more extensive hands-on training using the
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Web BLAST services and practical experience setting up and using standalone BLAST.
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A separate module providing more in-depth training in the use of NCBI structure
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databases and tools will premiere this summer at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Modules will soon be available that focus separately on Entrez and genomic resources. <br>
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The Field Guide continues to grow in popularity. Since the initial offering at
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Yale University in November of 1998, the course has been presented 140 times
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in 37 States and Puerto Rico to approximately 8,000 participants. The map on
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the newsletter front page shows the geographical distribution of Field Guide
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host institutions to date. At the time of this writing, there are 35 courses
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scheduled for the remainder of 2003. The course is updated each time it is given
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and provides the most current view of the NCBI resources available anywhere.
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For this reason, many institutions offer the Field Guide on a regular schedule,
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including Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, the University of
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Virginia, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of Pennsylvania. A schedule of
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upcoming and past Field Guides is available from the FieldGuide Home Page referenced
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below. Anyone who would like to attend one of the courses listed there should
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contact the host institution through the links provided.<br>
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NCBI provides this training free of charge at educational institutions and government
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laboratories and pays all travel expenses for two NCBI instructors to conduct
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the course. To host a course, an institution must have the appropriate facilities:
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a lecture hall and a teaching computer classroom. The host institution must also
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to attract a minimum audience of 50 people and must manage course registration.
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audience size often exceeds 200 people. When practical, we also ask that the
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host institution open registration to include people outside their institute
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in the training. In many cases, participants have traveled hundreds of miles
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to attend Field Guide courses at host institutions. <br>
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For more information about course content and links to the most recent lecture
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materials and hands-on exercises, see The Field Guide Home Page at:<br>
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Additional details about hosting the NCBI courses are linked to the Field Guide
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Home Page. Courses are now being scheduled for late fall of 2003 and early
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2004. <br>
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Anyone interested in scheduling a course should contact Peter Cooper at: </span><span class="links2"><a href="mailto:cooper@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov">cooper@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov</a></span></p>
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