Bioinformatics@Becker

Updates and Musings from the Bioinformatics team at Becker Medical Library


Entries Tagged as 'PubMed'

PubMed updates

January 26th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments

There are some great updates planned for PubMed in February: A link to an updated and enhanced Limits page will be available on all pages The homepage will include a link to the clipboard The Advanced search page will be updated Read more in the NLM Technical Bulletin

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Tags:NCBI, NIH, NLM, PubMed

PubMed and NLM Gateway & ClinicalTrials.gov TRAINING

January 7th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments

The National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) will be at Becker Medical Library to offer instruction in PubMed and the NLM Gateway/ClinicalTrials.org.  St. Louis, MO site details PubMed® Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM (Register) This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class [...]

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Tags:education, event, NLM, PubMed, resources, tutorial, Washington University

PubMed tutorials

January 7th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments

Check out today’s post at eagledawg.net: More great new PubMed tutorials. The post links to a series of tutorials created by Beth Whipple at Indiana University’s Medical Library.  Each tutorial is about three minutes long and provides guidance for anybody who uses PubMed.  Great tutorials, Beth!

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Tags:informatics, Information, interesting, NLM, PubMed, resources, tutorial

PubMed redesign!

October 29th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

Have you taken a look at PubMed lately?  The folks at the National Library of Medicine have updated the PubMed interface significantly. The result is an interface which is easier to use and much more intuitive. Probably the first thing you’ll notice is the search box (red arrow, below).  When you type a term in [...]

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Tags:Information, NLM, PubMed

RePORTER from NIH

June 28th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

On September1, 2009, CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) will be discontinued and replaced with the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) tool: The NIH has released to the public a beta version of its new Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) tool.  This new tool retains [...]

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Tags:database, event, funding, helpful, Information, NIH, PubMed, tutorial

PubMed Tutorial Update

February 9th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

From The NLM Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce a new look for the PubMed Tutorial. The tutorial was reorganized to give searchers a better understanding of what is in PubMed and the controlled vocabulary before going on to build a search and manage the results. The tutorial is available [...]

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NLM Fact Sheets

January 8th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

The National Library of Medicine has a series of fact sheets on a variety of topics.  The ones which I thought were most helpful/interesting to biomedical researchers are listed below, but there are many others, as well.  Check it out! About the NLM The National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division Lister Hill National [...]

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Tags:database, Information, NCBI, NLM, PubMed, resources

Gene Sensor in PubMed

December 15th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments

PubMed recently releases Gene Sensor, a cool new addition to PubMed which detects searches that include gene symbols for genes found in NCBI’s Gene database. If a gene symbol is detected, the search results include an information box on that gene. From NCBI: December 12, 2008 [posted] Gene Sensor A new sensor will soon join [...]

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Tags:bioinformatics, database, genetic, Information, NCBI, PubMed

Drug information in PubMed

September 3rd, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments

In her blog “Discovering Biology in a Digital World“, Sandra Porter discusses a cool feature in PubMed which offers links to patient drug information about the drugs that are discussed in that particular article. I decided to try it out! For instance, I searched “cervical cancer vaccine”[tiab] and clicked on the “review” tab to see [...]

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Tags:Information, NCBI, PubMed, resources

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE!)

August 22nd, 2008 by Kristi · 2 Comments

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a welcome addition on the scientific communication stage. JoVE is “a peer reviewed, open access, online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format” and offers an elegant approach to traditional publishing models. Jove offers videos from such categories as Basic Protocols, Neuroscience, Developmental [...]

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Tags:Information, open access, PubMed, Video