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Day 3 Morning Session

Workshop Description:

In today's workshop we will:

    • Introduce you to some popular data analysis, exploration and visualization tools for biological research
    • Separate into Breakout groups for discussions and demos of:
      • Genome Exploration & Visualization tools
      • Sequence Comparison (BLAST) & Visualization tools
      • Biomolecular Structure Exploration & Visualization tools
    • Bring in members of the development teams for each - for further conversation and feedback

After this workshop, you will:  

    • Understand how these tools are used in cutting-edge biological research
    • Learn how to use some of the tools' cool functionality to explore relevant  datasets
    • Create and export displays for use in communications
    • Know some of the development team members and gain an understanding of their points-of-view with regard to tool development

Workshop Duration:  3 hours

Content Difficulty:  Beginner

Target Audience: 
Today’s workshop was designed for educators at the high school through the undergraduate level for both use of these tools to develop and produce helpful visual aids for their curriculum, as well as create active learning exercises for their students.


NCBI Faculty:

image of Rana MorrisRana Morris, Ph.D. will be leading the Sequence Comparison (BLAST) & Visualization Breakout Group. She is an NCBI Customer Experience team member and currently the Outreach Program Lead. Since 2002, she has provided user support and training, as well as working with supervisors and development teams to improve NCBI resources based on user-centered design principles. Her doctoral, post-doctoral and research fellowship work integrated disciplines of computational and experimental biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology and genetics, and has included diagnostic development, drug design and coordination of genetics/genomics components of clinical trials

image of Sally ChangSally Chang, Ph.D. will be leading the Genome Exploration & Visualization Breakout Group. She is a member of the NCBI Customer Experience and Outreach teams and specializes in creating workshops and supporting other events for people performing eukaryotic genome analysis. Her doctoral and post-doctoral work involved exploring cnidarian genome and transcriptome sequences as useful animal models to understand key biological processes such as tissue regeneration. Dr. Chang's skills encompass evolutionary biology, computational biology, as well as bioinformatics training and curriculum development.

image of Sally ChangAlexa Salsbury, Ph.D. will be leading the Biomolecular Structure Exploration & Visualization Breakout Group.  She is a member of the NCBI Customer Experience and Outreach teams and specializes in coordinating codeathons and creating workshops and supporting other events for people performing biomolecular structure analysis. She has extensive experience in computational education and a research background of computational chemistry, structural biology, and biophysics.


Data Access Technology:  NCBI Website

NCBI Resources:  Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV), Genome Data Viewer (GDV), Sequence Viewer (SV), BLAST, TreeViewer, Structure, iCn3D

Last Reviewed: July 12, 2024