Presentation to science librarians about the approach of Harvard Medical School\u27s Countway Library to meeting the bioinformatics and e-science needs of the campus

Osterbur, David L.

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University of Massachusetts Medical School eScholarship@UMMS University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium 2009 e-Science Symposium Apr 6th, 12:00 AM Bioinformatics: Alive and Kicking David L. Osterbur Harvard Medical School Follow this and additional works at: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium  Part of the Bioinformatics Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Repository Citation Osterbur, D. L. (2009). Bioinformatics: Alive and Kicking. University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium. https://doi.org/10.13028/zjzs-gh71. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2009/program/5 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. This material is brought to you by eScholarship@UMMS. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium by an authorized administrator of eScholarship@UMMS. For more information, please contact Lisa.Palmer@umassmed.edu. Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Bioinformatics: alive and kicking David L. Osterbur  Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Too Central • “Bioinformatics has become too central to biology to be left to specialist bioinformaticians. Biologists are all bioinformaticians now.”    Taken from Stein, L.D. (2008). Bioinformatics: alive and kicking. Genome Biol 9, 114. Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Google Generation Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 History Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Auto Designers Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Auto Mechanics Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Driver’s Ed Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Keeping up to speed… Not just how to drive but choosing the right tools. Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 …to reach your goal on time. Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 The Library’s Role Why Libraries? • We are a service organization.    • We are already good at organizing, distributing and teaching access to many different types of information.  • We are a shared organization, not “owned” by any one department or unit.  •“Librarians like to search…    …everyone else likes to find”  Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Why Your Library? Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Google Generation Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 BLAST Results Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 NCBI has already done it… Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 …and more. Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Why not Libraries? Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Criteria for Success • Bioinformaticist interested in service  • Money to support software licensing  • No micromanaging Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Bioinformatics Support at Countway Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Countway Bioinformatics Education Program • R/Bioconductor • GeneGO - Metacore • Biobase – ExPlain, TransFac and HGMD • Ingenuity Pathway Analysis • SNP Data • Sequence Alignment – BLAST & Clustal • Genome Browsing • Beginning Unix • ENSEMBL • Matlab • Rosetta Resolver Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Community • BITS – Bioinformatics Tutorial Series – In collaboration with Courtney Crummett at MIT. – https://www.countway.harvard.edu/lenya/countway/live/menuNavigation/libraryServices/classes/videoTutorials.html – http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=14149&sid=145112  Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Harvard’s Favorites • Survey to find out applications that are used by various labs around campus – This will inform us of what software we need to support if we are not already – It will help researchers to see what their colleagues are using – A way for others to see what Harvard is doing Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Impact For the Library Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Impact • First time ever library invited to participate in both the graduate and medical curriculums. • Collaborative opportunities – MIT – MLA – other libraries – Across Harvard   For the Library Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Impact • More productive researchers • Better educated students and postdocs • … (and faculty)    “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.“  Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) Historian and Librarian of Congress    For HMS and the CTSA Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 When you think of libraries Don’t think of Marian the Librarian Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Think of Conan the Librarian Harvard Medical School August 21, 2014 Bioinformatics: alive and kicking... in the library. 

Bioinformatics: Alive and Kicking

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Bioinformatics: Alive and Kicking

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