Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard and the Engineering and Science Libraries at MIT have a fantastic new resource: the BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS). These tutorials are clear, easy to understand, and best of all, they allow just-in-time instruction on practical bioinformatics applications and tools.
These video tutorials highlight bioinformatics resources such as NCBI Entrez, [...]

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A new version of the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) and a new version of the CD-Search tool from NCBI were recently released.

From NCBI:
Proteins often contain several modules or domains, each with a distinct [...]

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Just a quick post to point out a great resource…Sequence Viewer (SV)!
The NCBI Sequence Viewer is being phased in to replace the graphical display option available from the Nucleotide and Protein databases. The functions [...]

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Please consider participating in the bioinformatics-related research projects “Assessment of User Skills and Efficiency in the Application of Bioinformatics Resources to Answer Biological Questions” and “Exploring Models of Library-Based Bioinformatics Support Programs: Services, Staffing, Training, and Funding”
Who is Needed
Faculty, post-doctoral associates, graduate students, research staff and undergraduates, in the life sciences or basic biomedical sciences, [...]

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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 [...]

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Partek GS announcement:
In an effort to provide both support and tools to the research community aimed to foster genomic insight, the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine has purchased a site license to Partek Genomics Suite (Partek GS). This software package is now freely available for download to the entire Washington [...]

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Welcome to ProbeDB!
The NCBI Probe Database is a public registry of nucleic acid reagents designed for use in a wide variety of biomedical research applications, together with information on reagent distributors, probe effectiveness, and computed sequence similarities.
As of February 19th, there were almost 10,000,000 records in the probe database. These records cover experimental [...]

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How fun does this sound?
For a quarter century, GenBank has helped advance scientific discovery worldwide. The nucleic acid sequence database was established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1982. Since its creation, the GenBank database has grown at an exponential rate. Amazing as it may seem, in 1984, the entirety [...]

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