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This course begins a series of classes illustrating the power of computing in modern biology. It teaches how to apply popular bioinformatics software tools to real experimental...

In this course, students will compare DNA from an individual against a reference human genome to find potentially disease-causing mutations. They will also learn how to identify...

This course explores that dynamic programming is a powerful algorithmic tool when comparing two genes (i.e., short sequences of DNA) or two proteins. When "zooming out" to...

This course covers topics like multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics, gene expression data analysis, and protein interaction networks. It covers motif searching,...

This course discusses the concepts and computational methods in the exciting interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics and their applications in biology.

This class will cover an introduction to command line tools for managing genomic data. It will start with basic Unix commands for managing files and directories, followed by a...

This online course gives an introduction to genomic data science. The course explores DNA replication, analyzing algorithms to look for hidden messages in the genome. It also...

In this online course, participants are given the following task: Given a collection of simulated error-free read-pairs, they use the paired de Bruijn graph to reconstruct the...

This online course explores how to perform common genomics-based analysis tasks of bacterial sequence data. The course was designed for biologists, bacteriologists, and...

This online lecture is an introduction to computational biology emphasizing the fundamentals of nucleic acid and protein sequence and structural analysis; it also includes an...

This online course offers a comprehensive guide to Plant Bioinformatics. Examples of topics covered are: plant economic databases, gene expression analysis and network exploration.

In this course, students will see how evolutionary trees resolve quandaries from finding the origin of a deadly virus to locating the birthplace of modern humans. They will then...

This online course explores Linux and its command line in order to access the full range of bioinformatics tools. The course was designed for students, biologists, and research...

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 these two seemingly...

This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Python.

This online course focuses on facts about the human body biology and chemistry, genetics, and medicine that will be intertwined with the science of Big Data and skills to...

This course offers an introduction to how we can start to understand this language by using algorithms to find hidden messages in DNA.

This online course (MOOC) teaches how to use existing tools and pipelines to analyze next generation sequencing (NGS) data.

This course teaches how graph theory can be used to assemble genomes from these short pieces and also about brute force algorithms and how to apply them to sequencing...

This online lecture gives an introduction to biomedical signals and their digital analyis. (Note: course website is in German, but lectures + slides in English.)