Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
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Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners at Coursera Overview
Duration | 19 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 19 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners at Coursera Course details
- Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting?
- This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Python. It offers a gently-paced introduction to our Bioinformatics Specialization (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics), preparing learners to take the first course in the Specialization, "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/dna-analysis).
- Each of the four weeks in the course will consist of two required components. First, an interactive textbook provides Python programming challenges that arise from real biological problems. If you haven't programmed in Python before, not to worry! We provide "Just-in-Time" exercises from the Codecademy Python track (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python). And each page in our interactive textbook has its own discussion forum, where you can interact with other learners. Second, each week will culminate in a summary quiz.
- Lecture videos are also provided that accompany the material, but these videos are optional.
Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1
Optional: Where in the Genome Does DNA Replication Begin? (Part 1)
Optional: Where in the Genome Does DNA Replication Begin? (Part 2)
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(Optional) Week 1 FAQs
Week 1 Quiz
Week 2
Optional: Where in the Genome Does DNA Replication Begin? (Part 3)
Optional: Where in the Genome Does DNA Replication Begin? (Part 4)
(Optional) Week 2 FAQs
Week 2 Quiz
Week 3
Optional: From Implanted Patterns to Regulatory Motifs (Part 1) (10:09)
Optional: From Implanted Patterns to Regulatory Motifs (Part 2) (05:06)
Optional: From Implanted Patterns to Regulatory Motifs (Part 3) (07:22)
(Optional) Week 3 FAQs
Week 3 Quiz
Week 4
Optional: How Rolling Dice Helps Us Find Regulatory Motifs (Part 1) (12:43)
Optional: How Rolling Dice Helps Us Find Regulatory Motifs (Part 2) (05:37)
Optional: How Rolling Dice Helps Us Find Regulatory Motifs (Part 3) (07:46)
(Optional) Week 4 FAQs
Week 4 Quiz
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