BioInformatics Tutorial Series (BITS) 

These video tutorials provide help on using databases and research tools for bioinformatics.  They are brought to you by a collaboration of the MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard's Countway Library.

A recorded workshop from January 2009 - IAP.

Bioinformatics for Beginners (49:48)

General:

• MIT Libraries
• Searching the MIT Library Collections: print and electronic
• Database Search Tips
• Accessing Items
• Citation Management Tools
• Workshops

Specialized topics:

• BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS)
• GIS How to...
• Patents
• Scholarly Publication and Copyright

Here's an example of a BITS video.  See the boxes below for the rest of the series.

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BIT 1.1: UCSC Genome Browser: Getting DNA Sequence (3:57)

BIT 1.2: UCSC Genome Browser: Using Annotation Tracks (5:47)

BIT 1.3: UCSC Genome Browser: Locating Intron-Exon Boundaries (4:56)

BIT 1.4: UCSC Genome Browser: Searching with BLAT (6:14)

BIT 2.1: Do I need to BLAST? The Use of BLAST Link (7:24)

BIT 2.2: Do I need to BLAST? The Use of Related Sequences (6:53)

BIT 2.3: Nucleotide BLAST (5:46)

BIT 2.4: Nucleotide BLAST: Algorithm Comparisons (6:14)

BIT 3.1: Entrez Gene (5:35)

BIT 3.2: OMIM and OMIA (6:34)

BIT 3.3: HomoloGene (6:28)

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