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
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• 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
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Genomic Data Science and Clustering (Bioinformatics V)

2 reviews

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 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• 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 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 11th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Python for Genomic Data Science

13 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 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Hacking COVID-19 — Course 2: Decoding SARS-CoV-2's Secrets

In this course, you will follow in the footsteps of the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by annotating the SARS-CoV-2 genome and using the annotation to design a COVID-19 diagnostic test. Whether you’re new to the world of computatio…

• Coursera
• 6 hours worth of material, 2 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Введение в биоинформатику (Introduction to Bioinformatics)

3 reviews

Курс «Введение в биоинформатику» адресован тем, кто хочет получить расширенное представление о том, что такое биоинформатика и как она помогает биологам и медикам в их работе. The course is aimed at those who would like to have a better idea of what bi…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Plant Bioinformatics

The past 15 years have been exciting ones in plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced, RNA-seq has enabled transcriptome-wide expression profiling, and a proliferation of "-seq"-based methods has permitted protein-protein and protein-…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

生物信息学: 导论与方法

欢迎选修北京大学MOOC课程“生物信息学：导论与方法”。 近三十年来，生命科学与计算科学飞速发展。生物信息学是一门生命科学与计算科学的前沿交叉学科。生物信息学产生和迅猛发展的主要推动力来自于新一代测序等高通量技术在生命科学领域越来越广泛的应用。目前，人和很多动植物的基因组已经被测序出来。已知DNA序列的数量已超过20兆亿碱基，每五个月翻一番。这些前所未有的大数据中蕴藏着很多尚不为人知的新发现、新知识，给生命科学研究带来新的历史机遇。但是同时，这些大数据不仅数量巨大、持续呈现指数增长的趋势，而且噪音高，…

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 14 weeks long
• 5th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners

9 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
• 18 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cómputo evolutivo

Charles Darwin, en su libro titulado “El Origen de las Especies” (Darwin, 1859) presentó evidencias relativas a dos aspectos importantes: la teoría de la evolución y los mecanismos de la evolución, conocido como selección natural. Sus investigaciones lle…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Quantitative Biology Workshop

2 reviews

A workshop-style introduction to tools used in biological research. Discover how to analyze data using computational methods.

• edX
• 4-8 hours a week, 9 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University of Cape Town

Doing Clinical Research: Biostatistics with the Wolfram Language

This course has a singular and clear aim, to empower you to do statistical tests, ready for incorporation into your dissertations, research papers, and presentations. The ability to summarize data, create plots and charts, and to do the tests that you c…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 4th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Reverse and complement nucleic acid sequences (DNA, RNA) using R

In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn the basic building blocks in the R language and how to Develop an R program that constructs reverse, complement, and reverse-complement nucleic acid sequences (DNA, RNA). Also, you will make your c…

• Coursera
• 1 week long
• 4th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)

4 reviews

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
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)