Free NCBI Training Course in Bioinformatics

The UBC Bioinformatics Centre (UBiC) will be hosting instructors from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to offer a unique and innovative training course in bioinformatics to 200 participants on the UBC campus.

The course is entitled, " A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources," and involves 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.

This unique training opportunity in bioinformatics will be held in the new Michael Smith Building, on the UBC campus, November 5th and 6th, 2004. Registration is open to all UBiC account holders including students, staff, and faculty interested in bioinformatics.

For more information, please visit:
UBC Bioinformatics Center

Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:59 PM on September 22, 2004