VCU Biological Complexity

NCBI Bioinformatics - "Exploring 3D Molecular Structures Using NCBI Tools"
2 Workshops: "Structures" and "Working with Alignments"
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 11 & 12, 2005 * 9:00 a.m.
Hands-on sessions will follow, offered att 10:30, 12:45, 2:15 & 3:45
Lectures will be held in room 1-044 Sanger Hall.
The hands-on sessions will take place in Tomkins-McCaw Library, Rm 2-012 - advanced registration is required.

NCBI Bioinformatics - Exploring 3D Molecular Structures Using NCBI Tools
NCBI Staff

Sponsored by the VCU Libraries

VCU Libraries is pleased to announce that NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) is returning to VCU on Tuesday, October 11 and Wednesday, October 12 to present two new workshops which will demonstrate and teach the use and presentation of three-dimensional molecular structures and comparison of structures in the form of sessions entitled "Exploring 3D Molecular Structures Using NCBI Tools". This lecture and hands-on workshop series will focus on the effective use of databases and search tools for 3D molecular structure and visualization, including NCBI Entrez Structure, the Vector Alignment Search Tool (VAST), the Conserved Domain Database (CDD), RPS-Blast, and the free Cn3D visualization tool.

The program includes an introductory lecture each day begining at 9:00 a.m. each day, Tuesday, October 11 ("Structures") and Wednesday, October 12 ("Working with Alignments"). Both lectures will be held in Room 1-044 Sanger Hall. These sessions will be followed by hands-on training sessions each day . The hands-on sessions will take place in Tomkins-McCaw Library, Rm 2-012 with 4 sessions offered each day at 10:30, 12:45, 2:15 and 3:45. The hands-on sessions require advanced registration as spaces are limited.

The course is intended for principal investigators, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and other scientific staff who either work with 3D molecular structural data or are interested in understanding how to incorporate such data into their research. The course content will be relevant to many VCU scientists, and researchers, students, and postdocs from both campuses are welcome to attend! A flyer is attached and can be distributed to anyone who may be interested in attending the training sessions. Please ask anyone interested to register for the hands-on sessions to help us plan effectively.

Detailed information on the presentation is available on-line from the NCBI web site at the url which follows which describes the program. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/Structure/course.html

To REGISTER, please visit the VCU IT Training site at the URL given below and look under the listings for the VCU Libraries as "Sponsor" on the MCV Campus . http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/it/search.asp

|| Friday 28, 2005||

"Elementary Introduction to the Feynman Operator Calculus, and Unification of Hyperbolic and Parabolic Evolution Equations."
Tepper Gill,
Howard University
Friday, October 28, 2005 * 4:10pm
ASB-B, 213 (Math dept, Howard University, DC)