About the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
NCBI is the national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI’s mission is to develop new information technologies to aid in the understanding of fundamental molecular and genetic processes that control health and disease. More specifically, the NCBI has been charged with creating automated systems for storing and analyzing knowledge about molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics; facilitating the use of such databases and software by the research and medical community; coordinating efforts to gather biotechnology information both nationally and internationally; and performing research into advanced methods of computer-based information processing for analyzing the structure and function of biologically important molecules.
NCBI Outreach Events
The NCBI Outreach Events page (https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ncbi-outreach-events/) allows you to search and apply for upcoming NCBI webinars, workshops, codeathons, and other outreach activities.
Some exciting upcoming workshop and codeathon opportunities include:
- Petabyte-Scale Sequence Search: Metagenomics Benchmarking Codeathon 2021-09-27 @ 01:00 PM to
2021-10-01 @ 05:00 PM - Using Web BLAST Effectively 2021-10-14 @ 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM
- NCBI Resources for Genetic Disease Discovery & Clinical Support 2021-10-26 @ 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM
- An NCBI Guide to Finding and Analyzing Metagenomic Data 2021-10-28 @ 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM
- An Introduction to NCBI Cloud Computing for Biologists 2021-11-16 @ 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM
- Getting Started with NCBI Data in Python 2021-12-14 @ 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM
Make sure to go learn about these and other opportunities NCBI has to offer and feel free to reach out to CDABS with any questions you may have about using NCBI resources.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) is the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library hub for data and bioinformation learning, services, resources, and communication.
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