“Introducing BioInformatics Series Tutorials (BITS) brought to you by MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.

These video tutorials highlight bioinformatics resources such as NCBI Entrez, BLAST, and the UCSC Genome Browser and focus on specific activities for conducting genomic research. BITS can be viewed at a user’s own pace and own convenience.

The first installment of BITS covers the UCSC Genome Browser, which contains reference sequences and working draft assemblies for a large collection of genomes. Users will learn how to retrieve DNA sequence, display and configure the annotation tracks, identify gene intron-exon boundaries, and use the BLAT tool.

BITS are available here:MIT Engineering and Science Libraries: http://libraries.mit.edu/video
Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine: http://countway.harvard.edu/video_tutorials

Questions?
MIT Engineering and Science Libraries ask-bioinfo@mit.edu
Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine countref@hms.harvard.edu”

From David L. Osterbur and Paul A. Bain, Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine and Courtney D. Crummett, NLM 2^nd Year Associate Fellow, MIT Engineering and Science Libraries

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