Phylogenetics Courses and Certifications

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

31 reviews

This course provides the basic biology you need to understand all of these issues better, tries to clarify some misconceptions, and tries to prepare students for future, more advanced coursework in Biology (and especially evolutionary genetics).

• Coursera
• 1 day 1 hour 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution

30 reviews

Explore the origin of vertebrates and major evolutionary novelties in this 4-week course by the University of Alberta, featuring key Canadian fossil localities.

• Coursera
• 7 hours 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

Plant Bioinformatic Methods

Explore plant biology with the University of Toronto's 35-week course. Learn core bioinformatics, RNA-seq analysis, and use 33 plant-specific online tools. Requires 2 hours weekly.

• Coursera
• 35 weeks, 2 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Introduction to Biology: Evolution

37 ratings at Coursera

Explore the fascinating field of evolution with Rice University's 4-week course. Trace Darwin's theory, learn about speciation, and understand evolution's role in modern biology.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Evolutionary tree of mammals

This introduction to the evolution of mammals considers Darwin's observations on mammals and how he noticed that species fell into natural groups. This free course, Evolutionary tree of mammals, looks at evidence from fossils and DNA to examine which ma…

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Wellcome Genome Campus

Making sense of genomic data: COVID-19 web-based bioinformatics

34 ratings at FutureLearn

Explore the tools for web-based SARS-CoV-2 sequencing analyses and learn techniques to prepare data and share genomic outputs.

• FutureLearn
• 3 weeks, 5 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Learn About SwissOrthology - Orthology Prediction Tool

Explore orthology prediction with Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' 6-hour material. Learn about SwissOrthology, OMA, OrthoDB resources, and delve into comparative genomics.

• YouTube
• 6 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

International Mathematical Union

Elchanan Mossel: Combinatorial Statistics and the Sciences

Explore combinatorial statistics and its applications in sciences with Elchanan Mossel's less than 1-hour material from the International Mathematical Union.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

Your Dreams May Come True with MTP2 by Caroline Uhler

Explore MTP2 probability distributions with MIT's Caroline Uhler in this 1-hour session from the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. Learn about their applications in finance and genetics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Fields Institute

Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry

Explore Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry with Seth Sullivant from North Carolina State University, in a short lecture organized by Fields Institute. Learn about tree reconstruction, model identifiability, and more.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Before Ankylosaurs, There Were Aetosaurs

Explore the evolution of heavily armoured animals with Dr. Andrew Heckert's insights into aetosaurs, offered by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

EvoEcoSeminars

Wings, Feathers, Flight - The PhyloG2P Approach to Understanding Bird Biology

Explore bird biology with EvoEcoSeminars, using the PhyloG2P approach to connect genotype to phenotype. Learn about gene regulation, feather evolution, and flightlessness in a 1-2 hour study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

EvoEcoSeminars

Choanoflagellates and the Origin of Animal Morphogenesis

Explore the origin of animal morphogenesis through choanoflagellates with Nicole King in this 1-2 hour material from EvoEcoSeminars, including Q&A on Slack.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

ICTP Mathematics

The Geometry of Tensors - Carolina Araujo

Explore the geometry of tensors and their applications in matrix multiplication, signal processing, and more with Carolina Araujo from ICTP Mathematics.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Bioinformatics

Dive into the world of bioinformatics with this 8-hour program. Learn about genome projects, database importance in biology, sequence conservation, Needleman Wunsch algorithm, and phylogenetics.

• YouTube
• 8 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course