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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 BIO101 from Saylor Academy (https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=889) might be helpful. No programming is required for this course. Bioinformatic Methods I is regularly updated, and was completely updated for January 2025....

Top reviews

NS

Oct 2, 2015

A thorough course for beginners with very interesting labs! I was pleasantly surprised with how much and how easily I learned bioinformatics skills with this course. Well done!

RG

Nov 4, 2017

I enjoyed doing the course. It is exciting to see how much one can learn from a few gene or protein sequences. Thank you for making the course understandable to a beginner in bioinformatics!

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By Facundo R

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Apr 28, 2016

Very useful for a wide variety of biologist profiles

By subrahmanyam g

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Sep 20, 2020

This course is very useful newly learning students.

By Zhao Y

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Oct 29, 2015

the instructor is really harsh, don't piss him off!

By Karla M

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Jun 23, 2023

It was an excellent course, I highly recommend it.

By Solomon o

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Aug 24, 2021

Standard training and flexible learning schedule.

By Hewan D

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Apr 21, 2020

Thank you so much for your well-organized course.

By Md. S H

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Dec 13, 2018

Just wow! The speciality is the discussion forums

By PAULA V L

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Jan 5, 2021

I love it. Very useful on my thesis and college.

By Filipa P

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Mar 1, 2020

Amazing well done course! Really recommend! :-)

By Chun-Jou H

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May 30, 2016

Very organized. The labs are extremely helpful!

By Sandeep K

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Jun 30, 2018

Best course to learn basics of bioinformatics.

By Elena S

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Jan 30, 2016

It's a very useful course, very well explained

By Raghavendra G

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Jun 22, 2021

Lab instructions and lectures were very good

By Angana B

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Jun 21, 2020

Learnt a lot from this session. Very useful!

By Jehanne C

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Apr 12, 2020

Très bonne introduction à la bioinformatique

By Aparna R

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Jan 8, 2018

awesome course... learned a lot... thank you

By Juri N O

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Jul 20, 2022

The best bioinformatics course on Coursera.

By Jose A R D L

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Jul 16, 2020

Great balance of theory and practical work.

By Pedro C R

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Jan 31, 2018

Very well explained, intuitive and usefull!

By Brenda G D S B

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Feb 14, 2021

Excelente curso, buenisimas explicaciones

By SHUVAM S

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Jul 19, 2020

It helped me a lot.

Thanks a lot, Dr.Nick!

By Noor M

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Jan 28, 2018

excellent course will recommend it to all

By Sergio M

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Jul 13, 2022

This is an excelent introductory course.

By Axel V

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Jul 20, 2021

curso excelente muy didactico y flexible

By Sana S

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Jul 29, 2023

it was a very good learning experience,