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.
This course is part of the Plant Bioinformatic Methods Specialization
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- Genetic Analysis
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
NCBI/Blast I
Blast II/Comparative Genomics
Multiple Sequence Alignments
Review: NCBI/Blast I, Blast II/Comparative Genetics, and Multiple Sequence Alignments
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- 5 stars77.02%
- 4 stars18.57%
- 3 stars3.40%
- 2 stars0.37%
- 1 star0.61%
TOP REVIEWS FROM BIOINFORMATIC METHODS I
Procedures are very well explained. Would be helpful to have some pipeline diagrams on the best way (software and breif methods) to solve a problem (e.g. for the assignment)
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.
Great tour through the main areas of bioinformatics. I learned to use a lot of powerful tools for bioinformatic analyses as well as important topics like phylogenetics and metagenomics.
This is course is very helpful to me. The learning material is so easy to follow and the concepts are well explained by the instructor. He is very responsive to answer queries.
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