Science
Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
With so many tools on the web, how do you find the really good ones to help with your work?
In this session, we’ll show a variety of online and mobile tools to help you keep current on the latest research in your field, manage your references, and share information easily with colleagues at MIT and around the world. Tools highlighted will include RSS feeds, Mendeley, WebNotes, Scivee, PubGet, and QUOSA.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 27, 4 – 5pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Remlee Green with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
LabLife provides free lab management software to biologists.
Learn how LabLife can help you organize your lab materials, coordinate lab ordering, analyze DNA sequences, and more! Also, meet the MIT alums behind the software.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 26, 12:30 – 1:30pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 20 participants.
Contact Amy Stout with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Genomics, microarrays, and massively parallel applications such as next generation sequencing have made biology research a highly quantitative field. As a result, many biologists face the challenge of mastering computers and computational methods. Our sessions are designed to begin the process
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We will provide an overview of some of the bioinformatics tools and methods mandated by modern biological research. Practical examples will be used to introduce powerful aspects of the Unix operating system, Perl, R, Excel and MySQL. We will also instruct attendees on the usage of bioinformatics tools for genomics, phylogenetics and microarray data analysis. Topics to be covered include the UCSC genome browser, GALAXY, Argo, GenePattern, Bioconductor, ClustalX, and a variety of functional annotation methods.
NOTE: Enrollment is limited to 20 participants, on a first-come, first-served basis. Participants are requested to attend all sessions. Please see this page to prepare for the sessions (links, presentations, data, downloads, etc.).
WHEN: Monday, January 25, Wednesday, January 27, and Friday, January 29, 11am – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Charlie Whittaker or Courtney Crummett with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
You may be a skilled investigator on the topic of science or engineering, but what do you know about business research? This session will introduce you to library-supported databases that cover company and industry information. We will use hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategies for researching two key components of a business plan: competitors and industry trends.
WHEN: Friday, January 22, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Stephanie Hartman with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Learn about new tools to support your research, collaboration, and personal knowledge management. Three developers will demonstrate their applications.
QUOSA Information Manager can help streamline your literature management. Search for articles and retrieve one or many PDFs in a single step from PubMed, Web-of-Knowledge, and other databases. Organize and manage your existing article PDF collections, and share them with your group in real time.
WebNotes Academic is the world’s first research tool that allows you to annotate PDF documents and web pages, all seamlessly while online.
ResearchGATE is a scientific network that connects researchers. Find research partners, collaborate with scientists and explore journal articles.
WHEN: Thursday, January 21, 4 – 5pm
WHERE: 2-105
Contact Howard Silver with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams.
The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents through free resources available on the web.
No pre-registration, but space is limited so come early!
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20, 5 – 6pm & Thursday, January 21, 12 – 1pm (duplicate session)
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Darcy Duke with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
The Web of Science has changed its search interface substantially in 2008. Learn about the new citation analysis and report features which enable you to quickly find relevant articles. Also learn about other Web sites that provide citation searching, a powerful tool in finding information for research.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 19, 12:30 – 1:30pm & Wednesday, January 27, 5 – 6pm (duplicate session)
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Michael Noga with questions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Want to know more about how BLAST works and how to use it more effectively in your research? Then this class is for you! This class will follow up on Bioinformatics for Beginners and lead into Advanced Bioinformatics, although attendance at the other sessions is not necessary.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 19, 11 – 12am
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 20 participants.
Contact Courtney Crummett with questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
What’s an RSS feed? How can I use it to keep up with new information in my field? We’ll show you how RSS and other current awareness tools can help you stay up to date!
This will be a hands-on session on Windows PCs. You are also welcome to bring your own laptop.
WHEN: Friday, January 16, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 25 participants.
Contact Darcy Duke with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 6th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Are you new to teaching or TAing at MIT, or are you an Admin Assistant who supports teaching faculty? Or do you just want to learn more about course reserves and copyright?
The MIT Libraries can help! We’ll help you navigate through the ins and outs of print and electronic courses reserves, and provide an overview of “fair use” and other copyright restrictions for course materials. We’ll also cover details about submitting required textbook information so that it can be displayed for students in Stellar.
Reserves staff from around the MIT Libraries will be available to answer questions.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 11am – 12pm
WHERE: Rotch Library, 7-134A
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please sign-up to help us gauge attendance.
Contact Roshni Gohil with any questions.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Are you writing your thesis this year? This one-hour interactive tutorial led by a recent PhD graduate will illustrate some simple shortcuts you can take in Microsoft Word to make thesis formatting a breeze (automatically generating/updating table of contents, applying consistent formatting throughout the document, etc.), saving you many precious hours.
There are 20 PCs available on a first-come, first-serve basis or you can bring your own laptop.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 13, 4 – 5pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Lourdes Aleman with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Biology department.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Join us for a hands-on demo of BrainNavigator, a new product sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Navigating brain structures is complex—especially in small subjects like rats and mice. It’s easy to get lost as you view structures, make injections and analyze research. BrainNavigator is a collaboration between Elsevier and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and it helps you locate the positions of structures within the brain, making visualization and understanding the brain easier.
Learn to use BrainNavigator to:
• Browse and compare diagrams
• View high-resolution images at the cellular level
• Compare rat and mouse brains using a unified nomenclature
• Compare BrainNavigator information with your own content
WHEN: Wednesday, January 13, 2 – 3pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Remlee Green with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
A couple hours in the Library can save you a couple of weeks in the lab. Don’t waste your time reinventing the gelatin sponge-choriallantoic membrane assay. Improve your efficiency by learning strategies for finding published research protocols and methods. This session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent introduction to resources that support bioscience bench research.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 5 – 6pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Howard Silver with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, recently of Choate, Hall and Stewart and now at the TLO, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents.
This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 2 – 3:30pm
WHERE: 3-133
Contact Carol Robinson with any questions.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for
• best practices for retention and archiving
• effective directory structures and naming conventions
• good file formats for long-term access
• data security and backup options
• metadata, tagging, and citation
• other relevant issues
WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 11am – 12pm or Tuesday, January 26, 10 – 11am (duplicate session)
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 20 participants.
Contact Amy Stout with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references is becoming more common and important in today’s academic world. These software packages allow users to search databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to be added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But which software package should you use, and how do you get started?
This session will focus on EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero, the three major options for bibliographic software at MIT. We will include a discussion comparing and contrasting the three softwares, and we will introduce some of the basic concepts and functionality of each program.
WHEN: Monday, January 11, 5 – 6pm & Thursday, January 28, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. 20 computers are available; you are welcome to bring a laptop.
Contact Mathew Willmott with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Learn how to use the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) and Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) bioinformatics tools licensed by MIT Libraries. Interested in systems biology, biomarkers, drug target discovery, and high-throughput data analysis? Learn to use HGMD, a comprehensive database on human germ-line mutations associated with disease, to determine whether a newly identified gene lesion is novel, search for an overview of known mutations within a given gene, or search for a particular type of gene mutation within a specific chromosomal location.
WHEN: Monday, January 11, 2 – 5pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Contact Courtney Crummett with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
Information on energy is everywhere! How do you find the scientific and technical information you need and keep on the cutting edge of what is published? Attend this hands-on session to find out.
WHEN: Monday, January 11, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 25 participants.
Contact Angie Locknar with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions and MITEI’s Energy Futures Week activities.
This session is co-sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization of key NCBI databases, understand the database record structure, and work with the BLAST search tool.
The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research tools.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 6, 11am – 12pm & Tuesday, January 12, 3 – 4pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 20 participants.
Contact Erja Kajosalo with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
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Posted January 5th, 2010 by Ryan Gray
If you are a researcher in chemistry, or chemistry related subjects like chemical engineering, materials science, environmental science, biological sciences, etc., then you should know about SciFinder, the most comprehensive chemical information database.
This hands-on workshop will teach you the basics of SciFinder on the web!
WHEN: Tuesday, January 5, 4 – 5pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 20 participants.
Contact Erja Kajosalo with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
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