As you may know, budgetary constraints have forced the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to suspend its educational programming. Included are courses such as the Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Resources, the three-day Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources course and NAWBIS, the five-day NCBI Advanced Workshop for Bioinformatics Information Specialists. The last opportunity to take the three-day Introduction to Molecular Biology Resources course will be April 14-16, 2008 in St. Louis, MO at Becker Medical Library of Washington University School of Medicine. This course is approved for 20 CE contact hours by the Medical Library Association.

The course was previously full, but we were able to make arrangements to allow for expanded registration. This will enable more people to benefit from this amazing opportunity. Again, this will be the last chance to take this class in the foreseeable future, so I encourage you to sign up for training and take advantage of one of the best learning/sharing/networking opportunities available. Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested.

• Information about the course can be found here: Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources
• You may register on the Upcoming Courses page or at the NNLM NTCC page

Please contact Kristi Holmes at holmeskr@wustl.edu if you have any questions.