-----Forwarded Message----- ================================================================= Enhanced Field Guide: Exploring sequences, genomes and structures ================================================================= For details and course registration see the course web page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/FieldGuide/FGPlus Space is limited! Register early! Featuring: * Greater coverage of NCBI tools and databases * Longer and more detailed hands-on sessions * Web, standalone and client versions of BLAST * Disease genes mini-course * 3-D structures course Time and Place: Wednesday and Thursday, May 26 & 27, 2004 The National Library of Medicine on the NIH Campus Lister Hill Center Auditorium, Building 38A The National Center for Biotechnology Information presents an enhanced, two-day version of the popular Field Guide course. This expanded course provides more detailed coverage of NCBI molecular databases and tools, especially the Entrez system and NCBI BLAST (Web, standalone and client versions). Special emphases of the course are genomic information and molecular structures. The hands-on practical portion is more extensive and includes the "Exploring 3D Molecular Structures" and "Identification of Disease Genes" NCBI course materials. The course is free but registration is required. To register, and for more information, see the URL given above. This premier version of the course is limited to the first 40 applicants. Participants must provide their own network-ready laptop pre-configured or configurable for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and have a standard Web browser installed. NCBI software (Cn3D, BLAST and Netblast) and databases will be installed on the laptops during the course. Participants are responsible for their own accommodations. There are a number of hotels in Bethesda and Rockville that are convenient to the NIH campus. Questions to Peter Cooper (cooper@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615