The Appendix, newsletter of the Health Sciences Library is a UC Denver email list.
June
2015
News from the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Library
June 2015
New Staff at HSL – Christi Piper
Christi Piper grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, but has called Colorado her home for the last ten years. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her Bachelor of Science in English, both from John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR, in 20010. After a year off, she then went on to get her […]
Announcing Bioinformatics Bites
This is Tobin Magle, the biomedical sciences research support specialist at the health sciences library. A major focus of my position at the health sciences library is helping patrons find molecular information, much like librarians help them find journal articles and other health information. I’m starting a new blog series called “Bioinformatics bites” where I […]
Bioinformatics bite: finding a list of genes in a genomic region
Today’s “bioinformatics bite” comes from my very first walk in question. A researcher wanted to know how to find a set of genes found in a given genomic region. This analysis is useful if your organism of
interest has a known deletion associated with a phenotype, and you want to get at the molecular mechanisms […]
SciENcv — Converting Profiles that Use the Old NIH Biosketch Format
to the New NIH Biosketch Format
The newest release of SciENcv has a feature to help users convert biosketches from the former NIH format to the new format, which took effect January 2015. Step by step conversion instructions are in the latest NLM Technical Bulletin. Dana Abbey, MLS
Cochrane Review Matchmaking Through Social Media
[From the Cochrane blog] Cochrane Review matchmaking through social media. Want to work on a Cochrane Review you have a passion for? What happens if you don’t know of any appropriate co-authors? Like many before her, Rawabi Aljadani faced this problem and has turned to social media to find a match. Below she tells […]
Bioinformatics bite: How to find the official name of a gene
Today’s bioinformatics bite will lay the groundwork for a patron question that would be WAY too long for one post. One common objective in searching NCBI is to find all the information that you can about a particular gene. To do this, you need to have 2 basic pieces of information: 1. The official gene […]
Leaving Anschutz Medical Campus? Suggestions for a smooth
transition
This time each year, students, residents, fellows, and faculty prepare to leave the Anschutz Medical Campus to pursue careers elsewhere – an exciting (and occasionally overwhelming) prospect! After you have left the Anschutz campus, you will no longer have access to our library’s resources, so we have compiled the following suggestions to help you transition […]
The Health Sciences Library will be hosting an exhibit of woodcut prints by Aurora artist Michael Keyes from July 1st – August 31st. Stories & Seasons in Woodcut will be on display in the 3rd floor Gallery. Woodcut prints are a type of relief printing. The prints are created when an artist cuts a picture […]
PsycTESTS trial
We have a trial running for PsycTESTS until July 24th, 2015. Please tell us what you think! PsycTESTS is a collection of downloadable psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments.
Bioinformatics Bite: Searching the gene database
This bioinformatics bite is another basic skill needed to answer another patron question: how to effectively search the gene database. Last week, I showed you how to find official gene symbol. We’re going to look for the gene entry for human signal transducer and activator of transcription 1, or STAT1. Let’s start at the gene database […]
