This course introduces you to the basic biology of modern genomics and the experimental tools that we use to measure it. We'll introduce the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology and cover how next-generation sequencing can be used to measure DNA, RNA, and epigenetic patterns. You'll also get an introduction to the key concepts in computing and data science that you'll need to understand how data from next-generation sequencing experiments are generated and analyzed.
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- Bioinformatics
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
2 hours to complete
Overview
In this Module, you can expect to study topics of "Just enough molecular biology", "The genome", "Writing a DNA sequence", "Central dogma", "Transcription", "Translation", and "DNA structure and modifications".
2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 81 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
1 hour to complete
Measurement Technology
In this module, you'll learn about polymerase chain reaction, next generation sequencing, and applications of sequencing.
1 hour to complete
3 videos (Total 25 min)
1 hour to complete
Computing Technology
The lectures for this module cover a few basic topics in computing technology. We'll go over the foundations of computer science, algorithms, memory and data structures, efficiency, software engineering, and computational biology software.
1 hour to complete
6 videos (Total 39 min)
2 hours to complete
Data Science Technology
In this module on Data Science Technology, we'll be covering quite a lot of information about how to handle the data produced during the sequencing process. We'll cover reproducibility, analysis, statistics, question types, the central dogma of inference, analysis code, testing, prediction, variation, experimental design, confounding, power, sample size, correlation, causation, and degrees of freedom.
2 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 55 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO GENOMIC TECHNOLOGIES
by AFJan 20, 2021
Complex topics summarized to key points, which is great. One criticism is that some questions on the quizzes required prior knowledge (fact recall) that wasn't covered in the course
by HGAug 5, 2020
Having a Computer Science background, the course helped me understand the foundational knowledge of Biology and Statistics. The explanations were easy to understand and digest.
by EOFeb 13, 2020
Clear and concise. Ministered by researchers with outstanding background in research, able to translate topics of relatively high complexity into easy language for a broad audience.
by HHFeb 27, 2020
I belongs to Computer Science background instead of biological background this course enhanced my visualization and gave me answers of all why's related to computational biology .
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