The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) presents A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources, a lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases covering effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources.

Topics:

• GenBank Database: description and scope
• The NCBI Derivative Databases: RefSeqs
• Database Searching using Entrez
• Neighboring and Links
• Entrez searching
• The NCBI Structures Database
  • The Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB)
  • Structural Alignments
  • Viewing Structures and Structural Alignments with Cn3D
• Similarity Searching using NCBI BLAST
  • Local Alignment Statistics
  • Scoring Systems
  • Using BLAST 2.2.8 web services
  • PSI-BLAST
  • RPS-BLAST (CDD Search)
  • Specialized BLAST pages
• Genomic Resources at NCBI
  • Complete Microbial Genomes in Entrez
  • Higher Genome Resources
  • RefSeq and Genes
  • UniGene
  • Variation Data (SNPs)
  • The Human, Mouse and Rat genomes
  • The Map Viewer
  • Other Genomes

For more information, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/FieldGuide/.