Hidden Treasures

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Hidden Treasures

• Making Your National Library of Medicine On-Line
  Tools work for You!

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Introduction

• Who you are and what you need
• Why youre getting me for this workshop.
• What well cover
• What I hope..

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The Role of Information in Living with Rare
Disorders

• The Group
• Participants will fill in as part of discussion

• The Individual
• Participants will fill in as part of discussion

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Information Overload

• What Youve experienced
• Particularly true for the technical literature

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Knowledge is Power

• Resources
• Find out where they mostly look
• NLM offerings
• Non-technical
• GHR
• Medline-Plus
• GARD
• Technical
• Entrez databases

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The Entrez to Entrez

• A series of linked databases that returns queries
  on
• Scientific and technical publications
• Genes
• SNPs
• A whole lot more
• And that can be a problem!

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The NLM Combines

• Filtering tricks
• , , and other Boolean busters
• Retrieval tricks
• Pull-down menus
• Clipboards

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Putting Your Tax to Work

• Your My NCBI
• Link-Out
• Lonesome Doc
• Clinical Queries
• Gene Tests
• Advanced training opps