Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians: Materials
Listed below are the external course materials used in the Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians course (see link at bottom of page). This list does not include internal course content, quizzes, discussions, optional activities, or administrative information and communications.| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| How is DNA turned into protein? The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology A reading describing how DNA is turned into protein, from Your Genome. | Jan. 15, 2016 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| How Genes Work A description of DNA structure and function from The New Genetics, National Institute of General Medicine Sciences, U.S. National Institutes of Health. 2010 April. NIH Publication No. 10-662. | April 1, 2010 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| DNA Replication This 3D animation shows you how DNA is copied in a cell. It shows how both strands of the DNA helix are unzipped and copied to produce two identical DNA molecules. | June 26, 2015 | 4 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| From DNA to protein - 3D This 3D animation shows how proteins are made in the cell from the information in the DNA code. From yourgenome.org. | Jan. 17, 2015 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Overview of Transcription Khan Academy's overview of DNA transcription to RNA. | Jan. 1, 2016 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Transcribe and Translate a Gene An interactive tutorial on gene transcription and translation, from the Learn.Genetics Genetic Science Learning Center. | Jan. 1, 2015 | N/A | HTML / Tutorial |
| Anatomy of a Gene A page describing aspects of genes, from Learn.Genetics Genetic Science Learning Center. | Jan. 1, 2015 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms The glossary features nearly 250 terms explained in an easy-to-understand way by leading scientists and professionals at the National Human Genome Research Institute. | Jan. 1, 2023 | N/A | HTML / Page |
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| Sample GenBank Record This page presents an annotated sample GenBank record (accession number U49845) in its GenBank Flat File format. | Jan. 12, 2021 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline The core competencies for biomedical informatics, from the American Medical Informatics Association. | Nov. 1, 2012 | N/A | HTML / Page |
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| Strawberry DNA Extraction, from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute. With only a few household items, you can extract DNA from strawberries just about anywhere! Extracting DNA from strawberries is super easy, allowing you to learn about genomics. Join NHGRI Director Eric Green and social media specialist Jenny Montooth as they show you step-by-step how to extract DNA from strawberries using materials available in your kitchen! | April 7, 2023 | 11 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) | Biomolecules | MCAT | Khan Academy Video introduction to PCR (polymerase chain reaction) from Khan Academy. | June 2, 2016 | 10 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), from Khan Academy A page describing polymerase chain reaction, a technique used to amplify, or make many copies of, a specific target region of DNA, from Khan Academy. | Jan. 1, 2016 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Gel electrophoresis | Biomolecules | MCAT | Khan Academy Introduction to gel electrophoresis. How it's used to separate DNA fragments or other macromolecules. | June 1, 2016 | 11 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Gel electrophoresis A page describing gel electrophoresis, a technique used to separate DNA fragments and other macromolecules by size and charge, from Khan Academy. | Jan. 1, 2016 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Sanger Sequencing A video describing the DNA sequencing method developed by Fred Sanger, which forms the basis of automated "cycle" sequencing reactions today. Originally created for DNA Interactive. | Jan. 1, 2010 | 1 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Next Generation Sequencing (Illumina) - An Introduction Animated video on how the Next Gen Seq machines of ILLUMINA work | April 23, 2020 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| Transcriptome Fact Sheet A transcriptome is a collection of all the gene readouts present in a cell. This fact sheet from the National Human Genome Research Institute explains. | Aug. 17, 2020 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| RNA Sequencing Animation A video animation of RNA sequencing, from Viologia Animations. | Feb. 4, 2022 | 4 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
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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 / NLM Navigator |
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| NCBI Nucleotide Part 1 of 12: Biology Review In this video, Bonnie Maidak from NCBI provides a quick review of biology concepts needed to understand the NCBI Nucleotide database. | July 18, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 2 of 12: 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 12: 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 12: 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 12: 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 12: 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 12: 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 12: 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 9 of 12: Finding Chromosome Records In this video, you will learn how to find chromosome records in the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Aug. 21, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 10 of 12: Inside a Chromosome Record In this video you will learn what information you can find on a chromosome record in the Nucleotide database. | Aug. 21, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 11 of 12: The Graphical Display In this video, you will learn how to navigate to the graphical display of a chromosome, narrow down to the area of a specific gene, and select tracks to display. | Aug. 21, 2024 | 4 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Nucleotide Part 12 of 12: Assembly Records In this video you will learn how to find assembly records, use them to find the sequence data that comprise the assembly and download data, starting in the NCBI Nucleotide database. | Aug. 21, 2024 | 7 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 / NLM Navigator |
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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 / NLM Navigator |
| 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 / NLM Navigator |
Gene Annotation and NCBI
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| The Genome Reference Consortium | Sept. 9, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Genome assembly GRCh38.p14 | Sept. 9, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| The double helix structure of DNA | Oct. 9, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Gene annotation in Ensembl | Sept. 9, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
Part 1: About the NCBI Gene Database
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| NCBI Gene Part 1 of 5: About the NCBI Gene Database | Jan. 25, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
Part 2: Find the Gene in the Genome
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| NCBI Gene Part 2 of 5: Find the Gene in the Genome | Jan. 25, 2024 | 7 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding the Gene in the Genome: An NLM Navigator | Aug. 27, 2024 | 10 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
Part 3: Reference Sequences
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| NCBI Gene Part 3 of 5: Reference Sequences | Jan. 25, 2024 | 15 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding the Reference Sequences: An NLM Navigator | Sept. 27, 2024 | 15 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
Part 4: Find Gene Expression Data
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| NCBI Gene Part 4 of 5: Find Gene Expression Data | Jan. 25, 2024 | 5 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding Gene Expression Data: An NLM Navigator | Aug. 27, 2024 | 20 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
Part 5: Gene Variants and Associations with Disease
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| NCBI Gene Part 5 of 5: Gene Variants and Associations with Disease | Jan. 25, 2024 | 9 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Gene: Finding and Exploring Variations: An NLM Navigator | Sept. 27, 2024 | 20 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
| IGSR: The International Genome Sample Resource | Nov. 25, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Site |
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| What is a Protein? Video describing proteins, from the Protein DataBank (PDB). | Nov. 20, 2017 | 7 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| 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 |
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| 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 / NLM Navigator |
| 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 / NLM Navigator |
| 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 / NLM Navigator |
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| NCBI Clinical Databases: Biology Review This video reviews some biology basics important to using NCBI's clinical databases. | Jan. 24, 2024 | 7 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Clinical Databases: Overview This video provides an overview of three NCBI clinical databases: MedGen, ClinVar and Genetic Testing Registry (GTR). | Jan. 24, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
MedGen
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| MedGen | Jan. 25, 2024 | 6 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI MedGen: An NLM Navigator | Aug. 27, 2024 | 10 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
ClinVar: Clinical Variation
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| ClinVar | Feb. 7, 2024 | 10 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI ClinVar: Clinical Variation: An NLM Navigator | Aug. 27, 2024 | 10 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
Genetic Testing Registry (GTR)
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| Genetic Testing Registry | Jan. 25, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| NCBI Genetic Testing Registry (GTR): Finding Genetic Tests: An NLM Navigator | Sept. 27, 2024 | 5 min(s) | HTML / NLM Navigator |
Patient Data Confidentiality and Privacy
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| Henrietta Lacks: The Woman with the Immortal Cells | Oct. 9, 2024 | 3 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| ACD HeLa Genome Data Access Working Group: Background and Charge | Sept. 18, 2024 | N/A | HTML / Page |
| Recognition of Research Participants’ Need for Autonomy: Remembering the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks | Sept. 18, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| Lessons from HeLa Cells: The Ethics and Policy of Biospecimens | Sept. 18, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| A Troubled Past? Reassessing Ethics in the History of Tissue Culture | Sept. 18, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| Genomic data-sharing: what will be our legacy? | Oct. 28, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| Biospecimen policy: Family matters | Oct. 28, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| The Ethics of Consent in a Shifting Genomic Ecosystem | Oct. 28, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
Data Reporting to Patients
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| Genetic Testing in the Era of Genomic Sequencing | Sept. 18, 2024 | 67 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |
| What People Want to Know About Their Genes: A Critical Review of the Literature on Large-Scale Genome Sequencing Studies | Oct. 28, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| Insurance Coverage Policies for Pharmacogenomic and Multi-Gene Testing for Cancer | Oct. 28, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
| Ethical Issues in Contemporary Clinical Genetics | Oct. 28, 2024 | N/A | PDF / Document |
Data Analysis: Motivations and Challenges to Reproducibility and Data Sharing in Biomedicine
| Title | Date | Runtime | Format |
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| Why Data Sharing & Reuse Are Hard To Do? | Sept. 18, 2024 | 62 min(s) | MP4 Video / YouTube Video |