Bioinformatics Courses

Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I)

17 reviews

Named a top 50 MOOC of all time by Class Central! This course begins a series of classes illustrating the power of computing in modern biology. Please join us on the frontier of bioinformatics to look for hidden messages in DNA without ever needing to p…

• Coursera
• 16 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 28th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Python for Genomic Data Science

14 reviews

This class provides an introduction to the Python programming language and the iPython notebook. This is the third course in the Genomic Big Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University.

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 12th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Whole genome sequencing of bacterial genomes - tools and applications

22 reviews

This course will cover the topic of Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of bacterial genomes which is becoming more and more relevant for the medical sector.

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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STAT115 2020

1 review

Syllabus: 2020 STAT115 Lect1.1 Bioinfo History.2020 STAT115 Lect1.2 Big Data Challenge.2020 STAT115 Lect1.3 Bioinfo vs Comp Bio.2020 STAT115 Lect1.4 Course Info.STAT115 Chapter 3.1 Three Generations of Sequencing.STAT115 Chapter 3.2 FASTQ and FASTQC.STAT…

• YouTube
• 29 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners

10 reviews

Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting? This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Pyt…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 28th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

STAT115 2018

Syllabus: 2018 STAT115 Lecture 1.1. Introduction to Computational Biology.2018 STAT115 Lecture 1.2. Introduction to Computational Biology.2018 STAT115 Lecture 1.3. Class Information.2018 STAT115 Lect 1.4. Microarrays.2018 STAT115 Lect 3.1. Differential E…

• YouTube
• 29 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

STAT115 2019

Syllabus: 2019 STAT115 Lect2.1 Microarrays.2019 STAT115 Lect2.2 Quantile Normalization.2019 STAT115 Lect2.3 RMA.2019 STAT115 Lect2.4 RMA Demo.2019 STAT115 Lect4.1 Hierarchical Clustering.2019 STAT115 Lect4.2 K-means Clustering.2019 STAT115 Lect4.3 Batch…

• YouTube
• 25 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Computational Epidemiology: The Role of Big Data and Pervasive Informatics

Syllabus: Introduction. Acknowledgements. Objectives for today's lecture. What is computational epidemiology. Epidemics in history. Recent example: Ebola outbreak in Africa. Goal: Real-time epidemic science. Mass action compartmental models. Pros…

• YouTube
• 1-2 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - When DNA Meets AI

Syllabus: Introduction. Our first use case: ALS. HOW I LEARNED TO CODE. STARTING AN MD/PHD. Pharma is paying for failure.. Veteran Drug Developers. DATA ADVANTAGE. Human "brains in a dish". Neurodegeneration is the only disease with growing death…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)

298 ratings at Coursera

You may have heard a lot about genome sequencing and its potential to usher in an era of personalized medicine, but what does it mean to sequence a genome? Biologists still cannot read the nucleotides of an entire genome as you would read a book from be…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 12th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

DCO042 - Python For Informatics

14 reviews

This is a course to teach basic Python programming skills through data analysis. The book and course materials are all free and licensed as Creative Commons. There is no complex math in the course, the programs are generally quite short, and the workload…

• Independent
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Comparing Genes, Proteins, and Genomes (Bioinformatics III)

126 ratings at Coursera

Once we have sequenced genomes in the previous course, we would like to compare them to determine how species have evolved and what makes them different. In the first half of the course, we will compare two short biological sequences, such as genes (i.e…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 12th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Genomic Data Science and Clustering (Bioinformatics V)

87 ratings at Coursera

How do we infer which genes orchestrate various processes in the cell? How did humans migrate out of Africa and spread around the world? In this class, we will see that these two seemingly different questions can be addressed using similar algorithmic a…

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Reproducibility in Cancer Informatics

The course is intended for students in the biomedical sciences and researchers who use informatics tools in their research and have not had training in reproducibility tools and methods. This course is written for individuals who: - Have some familia…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 12th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics

Introduction: Cancer datasets are plentiful, complicated, and hold information that may be critical for the next research advancements. In order to use these data to their full potential, researchers are dependent on the specialized data tools that are…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 5th Dec, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)