NCIBI on Facebook

Hey y’all! Become a fan of the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics on Facebook! I hear the groans out there, but what can it hurt, right?

AMIA – Summit on Translational Bioinformatics

The registration for AMIA’s annual Summit on Translational Bioinformatics will start on Monday.  This year the conference is at the Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco and runs March 10th through 12th!

In addition, AMIA’s corresponding Summit on Clinical Research Informatics starts right after and runs March 13th through the 14th.

Have fun!

PubMed User Search Behavior

A recently published article in the journal, Database: the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, investigates the needs and behavior of PubMed users  through the analysis of log data.  The authors analyzed 23 million user sessions with more than 58 million user queries. 

It’s difficult to find large analyses such as these specific to health informatio seeking behavior, so it’s worth having a look.  The fulltext of the article is available here:

http://database.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/2009/0/bap018

Good times.

PMCID Converter for NIHMSIDs

Yahoo!  The PMCID Converter will now list NIHMSIDs along with PMCIDs, so we’re all in luck.  Here’s the link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pmctopmid

In the past, you couldn’t get the NIHMSID unless you were the one to submit the manuscript, so this should make everyone’s life a little bit easier.

Here are some brief tips:

• Enter PMIDs into the box – on separate lines OR with spaces OR with commas in between
• Only 2000 PMIDs can be entered in one box
• Check the “Write result to file” box to output the results into a CSV file (I’d highly recommend this)

Thanks, NCBI!

NCBI Webinar Number Two

Hey All!  It’s been awhile (again) since I’ve posted.  Sorry about that.  Who knew how complicated it would be to manage work, life, AND Introduction to Biostatistics?  Yes, I have decided to try to increase my statistical knowledge….  At any rate, we are lucky enough that Dr. Peter Cooper, research scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, is going to do another webinar for us!  Here are the details…

What: NCBI Webinar on Molecular Biology Resources

When: Friday, December 11

Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Where: Taubman Library Classroom (2802 Med Sci II)

What’s Covered: New PubMed, New NCBI website, Discovery Initiative, Overview of databases (OMIM, SNP, BLAST), and more…

A full description and registration information is available here.

This should be good folks and space is limited so register early.  The webinar is being held in the classroom so that you can do hands-on work on the computer.  We look forward to seeing you there!