NCBI Workshop Session 4: NCBI Genomes, Assemblies and Annotation Products: Microbiome to Human

The Duke University Library and Duke Medical Center Library & Archives are collaborating to host a remote site for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Discovery Workshops, which will be held at the University of Michigan May 5-6th. Each 2.5-hour session consists of hands-on work emphasizing a different set of NCBI resources, using specific examples to highlight important features of the resources and tools. The workshops will be broadcast in Bostock library classroom 023 (lower level), and computers are provided.Registration is required.Workshop Session 4: NCBI Genomes, Assemblies and Annotation Products: Microbiome to Human NCBI BioProject, BioSample, Genomes and Assembly databases Annotation products from the Eukaryotic and Microbial genome annotation pipelines Environmental and organismal metagenomes Accessing wgs data in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Specialized genomic and SRA BLAST services Downloading genome sequences and next-gen reads from the NCBI FTP and Aspera sites