Author: Elliott Smith

OSA’s Optics ImageBank +

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Now available OSA’s Premium Optics InfoBase!  The Optical Society of America added the  Optics ImageBank and expanded Conference Proceedings to their core digital resource, which provides access to peer-reviewed articles on optics and photonics.

The Optics ImageBank contains more than 200,000 images from OSA’s journal articles, many are cross-linked to related images.  Images can be browsed and searched by keyword, exported to PowerPoint and PDF formats for educational purposes, and enhanced interactive equations can be exported.  The Optical Society of America is continually updating the Premium Optics InfoBase & the ImageBank.
Try it out!

SCOAP3 edges closer to goal….

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Moving toward its goal, SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, announced article processing charges for twelve journals. CERN and the publishers also announced that all articles in high-energy physics would be open access from 2014, in return for a yearly fee paid by the publishers & library partners.

Visit SCOAP3 at CERN for more information.

Too many articles & pdfs to track?

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Drop into the Bioscience Library Training room for a hands-on introduction or tune-up your citation management skills. 
Download from indexes, create bibliographies, enter footnotes and save pdfs in citation management-  Refworks and Endnote (own your program, 30 day trial).
The Bioscience Library Training Room is equipped with PCs or bring your own laptop.

Monday, February 2, 3-4pm.

Too many articles & pdfs to track?

Posted on by Elliott Smith

Drop into the Bioscience Library Training room for a hands-on introduction or tune-up your citation management skills. 
Download from indexes, create bibliographies, enter footnotes and save pdfs in citation management-  Refworks and Endnote (own your program, 30 day trial).
The Bioscience Library Training Room is equipped with PCs or bring your own laptop.

Monday, February 2, 3-4pm.

BIOBASE Proteome and HGMD training workshops

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BIOBASE PROTEOME

Alexander Kaplun from BIOBASE will be presenting hands-on training workshops on Proteome and HGMD:

Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Time: 1:00 – 2:45 pm (Proteome); 3:00 – 4:00 pm (HGMD)
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2189 VLSB

The workshops are open to all interested researchers, and no pre-registration is necessary.

BIOBASE Proteome includes tools for gene set analysis and pathway visualization, allowing scientists to quickly find answers to questions relevant to their research and to analyze high throughput data. Workshop participants will learn to:

  • search for individual gene, disease, and drug reports by name
  • browse for sets of genes, diseases, and drugs which share a desired set of characteristics
  • upload a list of genes and identify those characteristics which are statistically over-represented
  • export annotated characteristics for a gene list
  • build and visualize protein-protein networks, overlaid with disease and drug assignments
  • annotate custom sequences

BIOBASE HGMD provides data on human inherited disease mutations, enabling quick access to both single mutation queries and advanced search applications.

Questions? Please contact bios@library.berkeley.edu

BIOBASE Proteome and HGMD training workshops

Posted on by Elliott Smith

BIOBASE PROTEOME

Alexander Kaplun from BIOBASE will be presenting hands-on training workshops on Proteome and HGMD:

Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Time: 1:00 – 2:45  pm (Proteome); 3:00 – 4:00 pm (HGMD)
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2189 VLSB

The workshops are open to all interested researchers, and no pre-registration is necessary.

BIOBASE Proteome includes tools for gene set analysis and pathway visualization, allowing scientists to quickly find answers to questions relevant to their research and to analyze high throughput data. Workshop participants will learn to:

  • search for individual gene, disease, and drug reports by name
  • browse for sets of genes, diseases, and drugs which share a desired set of characteristics
  • upload a list of genes and identify those characteristics which are statistically over-represented
  • export annotated characteristics for a gene list
  • build and visualize protein-protein networks, overlaid with disease and drug assignments
  • annotate custom sequences

BIOBASE HGMD provides data on human inherited disease mutations, enabling quick access to both single mutation queries and advanced search applications.

Questions? Please contact bios@library.berkeley.edu

NCBI Discovery Workshops at UC Berkeley 9/17 and 9/18

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The NCBI Discovery Workshops, four 2.5-hour hands-on training sessions emphasizing NCBI resources such as BLAST and Nucleotide, will be presented by Peter Cooper of the NCBI staff at UC Berkeley on Wednesday, September 17 and Thursday, September 18, 2014.


Wednesday, September 17:
Session 1: Navigating NCBI Molecular Data Through the Integrated Entrez System. 9 am – 11:30 am
Session 2: NCBI Genomes, Assemblies and Annotation Products: Microbes to Human. 1 pm – 3:30 pm

Thursday, September 18:
Session 3: Advanced NCBI BLAST. 9 am – 11:30 am
Session 4: Gene Expression Resources at NCBI. 1 pm – 3:30 pm

Participants may register for all or for selected sessions on the NCBI Discovery Workshop signup form.

The sessions will be held in a location on the UC Berkeley campus to be announced; please plan to bring your own laptop.

Event: NCBI Discovery Workshop presented by NCBI staff
Location: Bioscience Library Training Room #2101, University of California, Berkeley
Date: Weds. Sept. 17 & Thurs. Sept. 18, 2014