PubMed Books
Have you noticed "Books" on the black bar on the PubMed search screen? Now you can search full text books from each PubMed screen by clicking on this link. The book collection has grown significantly. While the initial texts focused on molecular genetics, new additions deal with surgery, smallpox and vaccinia, and medical microbiology. Particularly useful - especially if you need to explain NCBI and its programs to your users, is the NCBI Handbook. Here's the Handbook table of contents - you might find some of these chapters helpful for your educational programs.
Part 1. The Databases
1. GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database
2. PubMed: The Bibliographic Database
3. Macromolecular Structure Databases
4. The Taxonomy Project
5. The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbsSNP) of Nucleotide Sequence Variation
6. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO): A Gene Expression and Hybridization Repository
7. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): A Directory of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders
8. The NCBI BookShelf: Searchable Biomedical Books
9. PubMed Central (PMC): An Archive for Literature from Life Sciences Journals
10. The SKY/CGH Database for Spectral Karyotyping and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data
Part 2. Data Flow and Processing
11. Sequin: A Sequence Submission and Editing Tool
12. The Processing of Biological Sequence Data at NCBI
13. Genome Assembly and Annotation Process
Part 3. Querying and Linking Data
14. The Entrez Search and Retrieval System
15. The BLAST Sequence Analysis Tool
16. LinkOut: Linking to External Resources from Entrez Databases
17. The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Project
18. LocusLink: A Directory of Genes
19. Using the Map Viewer to Explore Genomes
20. UniGene: A Unified View of the Transcriptome
21. The Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs) Database: Phylogenetic Classification of Proteins from Complete Genomes
Part 4. User Support
22. User Services: Helping You Find Your Way
23. Exercises: Using Map Viewer