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University of California San Diego

Hacking COVID-19 — Course 1: Identifying a Deadly Pathogen

In this course, you will follow in the footsteps of the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by assembling the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Whether you’re new to the world of computational biology, or you’re a bioinformatics expert seeking to learn about its applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, or somewhere in between, this course is for you! As you go through this journey, we will introduce and explain genomic concepts and give you many opportunities to practice your skills, and we will provide a series of problems with gradually increasing complexity. This first course will only discuss the assembly of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, but future courses in this series will explore follow-up bioinformatics analyses used in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Status: Computational Thinking
Status: Molecular Biology
BeginnerCourse7 hours

Featured reviews

CC

5.0Reviewed May 4, 2021

I hope it soon comes course 2! continue this series!!

AB

5.0Reviewed May 8, 2021

Excellent intro to how researchers identify an unknown pathogen.

SG

5.0Reviewed Sep 30, 2021

A very organized and systematic way of delivering the course. Special thanks to Dr. Niema Moshiri for guiding me through my doubts. Looking forward in doing the second course of this series as well!

DV

5.0Reviewed Mar 15, 2023

Me encanto la interacción con los ejercicios de bioinformática. Me recordó las clases en la universidad.

PB

4.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2021

GAVE ME A NEW LEARNING PERSPECTIVE ON BIOINFORMATICS

NM

5.0Reviewed Feb 20, 2022

I​ loved this course, it was challenging what I love and I learned so many new things. Besides that the course is very interesting and well structured

RD

5.0Reviewed Dec 23, 2021

E​njoyed learning about coronaviruses in depth and learned to use tools used in sequencing a DNA. Thank you!

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