Human Genome Resources
CME Credits: 2
Target Audience:
Faculty, researchers, staff and students who want to learn more about searching the NCBI’s suite of databases related to genetics, gene sequences, and gene mapping.
Prerequisite:
None
Description:
This class will focus on identifying human genome resources and selecting the appropriate resource. A wide variety of available Human Maps will be presented and, in using the Map Viewer, attendees will be able to view and manipulate the maps for answering specific questions. In addition there will be opportunities to become familiar with different sequence types.
Goals:
To provide a short course on how to search NCBI’s biological and biomedical sciences database. The main aim is to provide efficient methodologies for searching the databases and arriving at specified results.
Objectives:
To present the various search tools available via NCBI in such a manner that they may be used most efficiently to retrieve specific search and data.
Intended Results:
- Identify the human genome resources at NCBI.
- Select the appropriate map to use, for a particular question, from the available variety of human maps
- Use the MapViewer tool to view and manipulate the maps
- Familiarity with sequence types, EST, STS, and HTG, and the maps and databases that contain them.
- Interpret and use the Human Mouse Homology Map.
