NLM Navigators to NCBI Biology Databases
These brief video demonstrations and "NLM Navigator" tutorials guide you through searches and explorations of the NCBI Biology Databases. These tutorials were written for librarians and other information specialists as part of the course, Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians (see link, below), but could be used by any NCBI user.
Be sure to ALLOW pop-ups in your browser to use an NLM Navigator.
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| NCBI Taxonomy In this video, Peter Cooper from NCBI defines taxonomy and demonstrates the NCBI Taxonomy database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 31 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Taxonomy: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial guides you through using the NCBI Taxonomy browser to identify species and find related sequence and other information in the NCBI molecular biology databases. | Nov. 8, 2023 | 15 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
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| NCBI Nucleotide Part 1 of 10: Biology Review In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI provides a quick review of biology concepts needed to understand the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 2 of 10: Database Layout In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI tours the layout of the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 2 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 3 of 10: Finding a nucleotide sequence for a gene In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI demonstrates searching the Nucleotide database for a gene product. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 4 of 10: What is in a record? In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI highlights the features of a record in the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 5 of 10: Refining a search In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI uses [title] and [organism] searches to refine her search for APRT sequences in the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 6 of 10: Record types In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI explains the different types of records in the Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 7 of 10: Downloading sequence data In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI demonstrates how to download data from the Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 1 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 8 of 10: Chromosome records and the graphical view In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI explains accession numbers in the NCBI databases, finds a chromosome record, and demonstrates how to navigate the graphical viewer in the video. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 10 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 9 of 10: A shortcut to finding RefSeq records In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI provides a shortcut for finding RefSeq records in the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 1 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 10 of 10: Complete genomic sequences? In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI explains "complete genome" records in the Nucleotide database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 6 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial provides a tour of the NCBI Nucleotide database, a database of nucleic acid sequences from GenBank and other DNA and RNA sequence repositories. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 15 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
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| Using NCBI BLAST In this video, Peter Cooper from NCBI describes and demonstrates the NCBI BLAST service. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 50 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI BLAST: Identifying Sequences: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial walks you through your first BLAST to identify the source of a DNA or RNA sequence. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 15 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI BLAST: Comparing Sequences: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial walks you through a simply BLAST to compare sequences. Allow pop-ups to use this Navigator. | Nov. 15, 2023 | 10 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
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| NCBI Gene Part 1 of 5: About the NCBI Gene Database This video describes the NCBI Gene database and demonstrates a basic search. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene Part 2 of 5: Find the Gene in the Genome In this video, you will learn how to find a gene in the genome and how to determine which genes fall in a certain place in a chromosome using the NCBI Gene database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 7 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding the Gene in the Genome: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial guides you through how to find the genes are involved in a specific region of the genome given a chromosomal location. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 10 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI Gene Part 3 of 5: Reference Sequences In this video, you will learn about the different types of sequences found in NCBI databases and how to find them using the Gene database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 15 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding the Reference Sequences: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial shows how to use the NCBI Gene Database to find the reference genomic, transcript and protein sequences for a gene given the gene name or symbol and species. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 15 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI Gene Part 4 of 5: Find Gene Expression Data In this video, Peter Cooper from NCBI explains how to find expression data for a gene starting from the NCBI Gene database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding Gene Expression Data: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial shows how to find in what tissues and under what conditions a gene is expressed, and to find tissue-specific expression of gene variants. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 20 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI Gene Part 5 of 5: Gene Variants and Associations with Disease In this video, you will learn how to find important genetic variants using the NCBI Gene database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 9 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding and Exploring Variations: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial demonstrates how to find variations that are present in the gene and explore their known associations with disease using the NCBI Gene database. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 20 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
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| NCBI Protein Biology Basics In this video, Kate Majewski from the National Library of Medicine explains some protein biology basics needed to understand the NCBI Protein database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 8 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 1 of 8: NCBI Protein Database Layout In this video , Kate Majewski from the U.S. National Library of Medicine gives a tour of the NCBI Protein database web pages. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 2 of 8: Searching the Protein Database In this video , Peter Cooper from the U.S. National Library of Medicine explains how to search the protein database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 8 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 3 of 8: Protein Sequence Records In this video, Peter Cooper from the U.S. National Library of Medicine shows how to view protein sequence records in the NCBI Protein database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 8 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Protein: Simple Search and Record Structure: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial guides you through searching for proteins in the NCBI Protein database and exploring the information found there. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 15 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 4 of 8: Identical Sequences In this video, Peter Cooper from the U.S. National Library of Medicine shows how to use the identical proteins tool in the NCBI Protein database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 11 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 5 of 8: Finding Structures In this video , Peter Cooper from NCBI uses the Protein database to find structures for adenosine deaminase. He starts with the search for: human[orgn] AND adenosine deaminase[ti]]. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 8 min(s) | MP4 Video / Video Tutorial |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 6 of 8: Viewing a Structure with iCn3D In this video, Peter Cooper from NCBI demonstrates how to use iCn3D to view a structure. | Feb. 9, 2024 | 9 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Structures: Viewing a Protein Structure: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial guides you through finding a protein in the NCBI Protein Database and viewing it in the NCBI Structure database. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 10 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 7 of 8: Using PubChem to Find Structures with Specific Molecules In this video, Peter Cooper from NCBI demonstrates how to find structures that contain a particular molecule bound to it using the PubChem database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 4 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Structures: Find Protein Structures with Specific Components: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial guides you how to use PubChem to find structures with specific components in the NCBI Structure database. | Oct. 20, 2023 | 10 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
| NCBI Protein and Structure Part 8 of 8: Finding Structures with Specific Biological Features In this video, Peter Cooper from NCBI demonstrates how to find a structure with specific biological features using the NCBI Structure database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 8 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
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| ClinVar This video provides an overview of the NCBI ClinVar clinical variation database. | Feb. 7, 2024 | 10 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI ClinVar: Clinical Variation: An NLM Navigator This tutorial guides you through finding relevant genetic variations associated with human health and the evidence linking the variation to clinical observations. | Feb. 7, 2024 | 10 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
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| MedGen This video provides an overview of the MedGen clinical database. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 6 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI MedGen: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial provides a tour of the NCBI MedGen database, which provides vocabulary, background information, and links to detailed information about medical genetics. | Nov. 1, 2023 | 10 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |
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| Genetic Testing Registry This video provides an overview of the Genetic Testing Registry (GTR). | Jan. 24, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Genetic Testing Registry (GTR): Finding Genetic Tests: An NLM Navigator This interactive tutorial guides you through how to find genetic tests in the NCBI Genetic Testing Registry or GTR. | Nov. 8, 2023 | 5 min(s) | HTML / Tutorial |