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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 Pratibha k

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Mar 13, 2022

excellent

By Ignacio C

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Jan 21, 2022

Excelent!

By Jairo A M M

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Jun 3, 2021

Very good

By Daniel F V G

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Feb 1, 2021

Excellent

By DIPALI P V

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Jun 12, 2020

Excellent

By NEHA S

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Jun 12, 2020

Thank you

By chengkaizhu

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Jul 28, 2017

excellent

By Hosain A

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Sep 30, 2016

thank you

By Reem A

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Oct 6, 2015

I like it

By Pedro

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Sep 23, 2020

MUY BIEN

By Jarel E T

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Oct 26, 2016

Awesome!

By Muhammad A

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Sep 3, 2023

level A

By Luis P R

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Jan 12, 2018

Great!!

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Jan 22, 2024

Great

By PRAKASH R

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Nov 27, 2020

super

By Shayan s

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May 7, 2019

great

By MAHAMADOU A N

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Jul 15, 2017

Nice!

By Prasuna R

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Nov 21, 2020

good

By KADIM S S M

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May 16, 2020

good

By Khaled A M D B

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Jan 13, 2020

THAN

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Jun 9, 2021

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By Sardar H

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Mar 4, 2023

I learned a lot from this course and it was really informative. But I felt like something was missing throughout the course and lost interest, especially in the second and third weeks. The data files provided for analysis should have been told where to get them and how to retrieve and arrange sequences because that is the most basic task. Moreover, I really liked the way of teaching of the instructor. It was very polite and easily understandable.

By Peter N

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May 8, 2020

The very last assignment wouldn't work for me, for the final question. Total bummer. I was doing everything according to instructions and even checking but it wouldn't work. Don't feel like explaining but the conversion to mega just was faulty, and the instructor's instructions to fix the problem didn't help either.

Also, one of the questions in the final assignment was nowhere in the reading.

But overall a nice intro and not too difficult.

By Aniruddha V

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Nov 1, 2016

A short and sweet, to-the-point course. This course helped me in getting a hang of some of the most widely used softwares and techniques required for bioinformatics. Only issue-some of the questions in certain quizzes have been assigned wrong choices as the answer, which led to a lot of confusion. They just wouldnt accept the right answer, so you are forced to mark the wrong ones and proceed.

By Sourav P

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Jul 11, 2017

It Was A Very Interesting Course For My First Introduction To Bioinformatics. It Changed My Views That Biological Discoveries Only Involves Working In A Laboratory With Chemicals And Biological Samples.

It Felt Really Interesting That Even In Biology We Can Use Computer Software's To Generate Results Which Are Of Immense Importance To Scientists & Researchers.