Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians: Databases, Tools, and Clinical Applications

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is pleased to announce open registration for the third cohort of Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians: Databases, Tools, and Clinical Applications! This course is designed both for librarians who offer, or intend to offer, bioinformatics services; and also for librarians who use bioinformatics information on a periodic or irregular basis to serve their patrons. The 16-week, self-paced Moodle course reviews basic biology concepts and takes a deep dive into NCBI Molecular Biology Databases. It is worth 25 hours of continuing education credit from the Medical Library Association. Successful participants are invited to join an Alumni Forum which includes discussion and monthly learning opportunities. The third cohort of the course will run January 14 – May 3, 2019. There are four major due dates to successful complete this course: Pre-Work: January 25, 2019 Part I: February 22, 2019 Part II: March 29, 2019 Part III: May 3, 2019 Subject Matter Experts/Additional Instructors for this course include: Dr. Peter Cooper, PhD and Dr. Bonnie Maidak, PhD, MLS, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine. Pre-work Week 1 (Jan 14-18): Genetics Basics Week 2 (Jan 21-25): Genetics Basics Part 1 Week 3 (Jan 28-Feb 1): Introduction Week 4 (Feb 4-8): Molecular Biology Techniques Week 5 (Feb 11-15): NCBI Nucleotide Week 6 (Feb 18-22): BLAST Sequence Similarity Part 2 Week 7 (Feb 25-Mar 1): NCBI Gene ...
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