Event
SciFinder-n: Biosequence searching
Event details
Presenter
Andrew McKay is the Regional Market Manager for Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) looking after all SciFinder subscribers across Australia and New Zealand. He has a degree in Applied Science from the University of Tasmania and worked as a R&D Chemist before joining CAS in 2015. His role at CAS is to ensure the success of all CAS Customers, be they students, faculty or researchers by helping them accelerate their research and find that insight or difficult-to-find information that helps propel their work forward.
New SciFinder-n features
SciFinder-n now has Biosequence Searching capabilities meaning you can now search across more than 550 million Nucleic and Protein Sequences, with easy links back to the journals and patents that contain them.
You can search in three different ways:
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Complimentary Determining Region
For antibody and T-Cell Receptors, and to view the individual and intersecting CDR results. -
BLAST
Full suite of searching functions supported, including BLASTn, MegaBlast, BLASTp, tBLASTn. -
Motif
Search for short patterns in DNA, RNA, or proteins with queries enabled for additional variability.
Results displayed will show not only alignment but will highlight misalignments. Advanced search functions allow for greater precision. You can also visualise your results in order to more easily review large answer sets with a new tool called BioScape.
Image attribution: "DNA" by Hein Boekhout, Modifications: is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
About the event
SciFinder-n is a database and application that provides integrated access to comprehensive and authoritative sources of substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
This training will show you how to find biosequences using SciFinder-N. Andrew McKay from the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will facilitate the training, in collaboration with the library’s Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Liaison Librarians.
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Important access information
For everyone’s security, the link and password to this Zoom session will be sent out one day prior to the training. This information is also included in the calendar invitation sent along with your confirmation email.