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About the Course

Large-scale biology projects such as the sequencing of the human genome and gene expression surveys using RNA-seq, microarrays and other technologies have created a wealth of data for biologists. However, the challenge facing scientists is analyzing and even accessing these data to extract useful information pertaining to the system being studied. This course focuses on employing existing bioinformatic resources – mainly web-based programs and databases – to access the wealth of data to answer questions relevant to the average biologist, and is highly hands-on. Topics covered include multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics, gene expression data analysis, and protein interaction networks, in two separate parts. The first part, Bioinformatic Methods I (this one), deals with databases, Blast, multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics, selection analysis and metagenomics. The second part, Bioinformatic Methods II, covers motif searching, protein-protein interactions, structural bioinformatics, gene expression data analysis, and cis-element predictions. This pair of courses is useful to any student considering graduate school in the biological sciences, as well as students considering molecular medicine. Both provide an overview of the many different bioinformatic tools that are out there. These courses are based on one taught at the University of Toronto to upper-level undergraduates who have some understanding of basic molecular biology. If you're not familiar with this, something like https://learn.saylor.org/course/bio101 might be helpful. No programming is required for this course. Bioinformatic Methods I is regularly updated, and was completely updated for January 2023....

Top reviews

SA

Jul 11, 2020

This course is very well organized, easy to understand, and explained everything steps by step which will help to grasp the concept easily. If you are a beginner like me, you should take this course.

BA

Nov 2, 2021

Bioinformatics 1 was very interesting and enlightening for me. I learnt practical skills which I can now apply in to ace an impactful career. Thank you so much Coursera for this amazing opportunity!

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By Yarenci A G

Jul 27, 2018

Excelente curso, muy recomendable

By Jaime E B D C

May 13, 2017

Excelente curso, muy recomendado.

By Maaly a

Apr 14, 2017

Simplified and very useful course

By Aram S

Nov 25, 2016

Excellent and informative course!

By Algifari s

Jan 15, 2023

Amazing course, so gratefull...

By Sara A L

Mar 17, 2017

Es un curso muy útil y completo

By Lukas B

Jan 24, 2016

Very good course for beginners!

By Nilesh G

Jun 8, 2020

Excellent course for beginners

By Christopher T O

Nov 3, 2015

Amazing, Excellent and Awesome

By Pirana I I

Jan 9, 2021

thanks your course is so good

By José L M Q

Sep 21, 2020

Very useful and interesting!

By Farbod -

Sep 3, 2015

It was really useful for me.

By Daniel B

Feb 9, 2020

Well. I liked it very much.

By Raja S

Dec 19, 2021

very useful and excellent

By saroj p

Mar 23, 2016

good but lengthy videos..

By Teresa B

Apr 15, 2020

Excelent in all aspects

By Mohammad K

May 16, 2018

very informative Course

By 陈禹衡

Feb 19, 2019

这些软件在学习和研究中都很可能会用到,很实用

By José B D

Mar 24, 2019

Thank you very much!!

By Rommel G

Aug 29, 2020

Simple and complete!

By 周冰莹

Oct 25, 2018

深入浅出,每个Lab讲解非常详细,很喜欢

By Olena P

Dec 24, 2015

Really great course.

By NAAMALA J

Aug 24, 2019

It was very helpful

By Emad R

Jan 27, 2022

this is very good.

By Ganga S D

Nov 24, 2020

Really informative