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July
2015
News from the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Library
July 2015
Bioinformatics Bite: How to find the transcription start site of a gene.
Today’s bioinformatics bite is the patron question we’ve been leading up to in previous posts: How do I find the transcription start site of the human signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 gene? Step 1: Find the official gene name: STAT1 Step 2: Search the gene database using the gene name and organism tags STAT1[Gene […]
Search box on library’s website will be on top right of every page
In an effort to continually improve your web experience, we’re rolling out the following new features this month: We’re moving the search box to the top right area of the header The search box will be available on every page (not just the homepage) We will meet users’ general expectations for the search box to be located in […]
Exciting News for Anschutz Medical Campus Faculty and Staff! FREE
ILL!
Beginning July 1, 2015, most CU-Anschutz Medical Campus Faculty and Staff will now receive FREE ILL! This includes paid University faculty and staff of CU Anschutz, faculty paid by affiliates, volunteer
clinical/faculty, retired CU Anschutz faculty, CU Anschutz fellows, CU Anschutz visiting scholars and students, and UPI employees. CU Anschutz students and residents will continue […]
Clinical Corner
by Kristen DeSanto, Clinical Librarian The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) database provides evidence-based resources specifically for nurses to guide patient care practices. It contains over 3000 records across seven different publication types, including evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, and systematic reviews. The records are also tagged with subject area nodes, including acute care, chronic […]
Want to publish in Nature?
The editor from Nature Genetics gives advice for writing titles and abstracts that are worthy of being published in their high impact journals at the 2015 NatureJobs Career Expo. My favorite tips from the article (paraphrased) Title: Keep it concise and meaningful, and focus on novel aspects. Be specific, but not too specific (avoid jargon). Don’t tease the […]
Bioinformatics bites: Constructing a BLAST query
This week’s Bioinformatics Bite will go through the basics of how to construct a query for NCBI‘s BLAST services. A previous post discusses how to use text searching to find information about genes. BLAST is another way to search the NCBI databases. BLAST stands for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. This tool takes a nucleotide or […]
Librarians in the Lab: Gates Biomanufacturing Facility
This is Tobin Magle, Biomedical Sciences Research Support specialist at the Health Sciences Library. I’m starting another blog series called “Librarians in the Lab” where I and other health sciences librarians visit labs on campus. This interaction will help us understand the type of work being done on campus, and give us some face time […]
NCBI is innovating: give them your feedback
NCBI is currently going through a period of innovation. To facilitate testing new features, they have created PubMed Labs. They are releasing new features in PubMed and the NCBI databases and soliciting feedback before they become permanent features. Two new features are currently available: PubMed Also-Viewed: Much like the “Customers Who Bought This Item Also […]
Bioinformatics bites: Navigating BLAST results
In this week’s bioinformatics, Bite will pick up where last week’s post left off: the results page after you hit the BLAST button. The results page has several sections that we will go through individually: Search details: What you entered into your query Graphic Summary: A visual representation comparing your query to the results Descriptions: […]
Clinical Corner: High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care
Steven Weinberger MD, of the American College of Physicians (ACP), gave a presentation on Friday, July 31 at internal medicine conference on the topic of high-value, cost-conscious care. The ACP High Value Care initiative has two aims: Helping physicians to provide the best possible patient care. Simultaneously reducing unnecessary costs to the healthcare system. Here […]
