The first part of the series of seminars will focus on working with literature and literature sources. Basic concepts. Electronic information resources and their types (bibliographic, full-text and hybrid, multidisciplinary and specialized, freely available and paid). Fundamentals of search strategy and the creation of the search query (keywords, author). Working with search results - evaluation, selection, export, acquisition of primary documents. Selected multidisciplinary, specialized and citation databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, Current Contens, JCR). Full text databases (Science Direct, SpringerLink). Basic rules for the practical use of literature sources in the preparation of scientific publications. The second part of a series of seminars will be devoted to the basic principles of work and searching for information in NCBI sequence databases (nucleotide BLAST, protein BLAST), their interpretation and practical use in biotechnological research. Comparison of the sequences of nucleic acids and proteins, search of genes, identification of protein domains. Form of seminars - after the initial theoretical lectures, students will solve the specified problem tasks. Syllabus Topic 1. Introduction to BTI course. Topic 2. Searching engines and biological databases. Topic 3. Literature and citation tools. Topic 4. Science social networking and scientometrics. Topic 5. Types and structure of research papers. Basics of academic writing. Topic 6. Intro to biometry and biomedical statistics. Topic 7. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in biology. Topic 8. DNA databases. Topic 9. Protein databases. Topic 10. Protein structure prediction and molecular docking. Topic 11. Biodiversity databases and databases of model organisms. Topic 12. Microscope image processing and presentation.
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Getting familiar with various aspects of the use of information for study and research in the field of biotechnology, with a focus on on-line information sources.
After completing of seminars, students will be able to work with selected multidisciplinary and specialized databases, build a search query, work with search results, get the full texts of primary documents and use them in the preparation of scientific publications. They will also be able to obtain and interpret basic information from sequence databases.
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