Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Applied Bioinformatics

Learn critical applied bioinformatics capabilities. Acquire practical applied bioinformatics skills by studying real COVID-19 data.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Assembling a genome
  • Genomic annotation
  • Multiple sequence alignment
  • You have concluded for yourself physiogenetically
  • Root and tree ranking
  • Metabolic pathway analysis

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Bioinformatician
  • Biological Data Analyst
  • Researcher in the field of computational biology
  • Genomic analysis specialist
  • Healthcare Data Scientist
  • Epidemiologist
  • Bioinformatics Programmer
  • Bioinformatics consultant
  • Public Health Project Manager

Internship – 5-part course series

This internship is for anyone interested in learning practical bioinformatics skills by working with real data from a pandemic. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to computational biology, a bioinformatics expert interested in learning about its applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, or somewhere in between – this course is for you!

Hands-on Learning Project

Learners will use the most advanced tools in the field of bioinformatics to perform:

  • Assembling a genome
  • Genomic annotation
  • Multiple sequence alignment
  • You have concluded for yourself physiogenetically
  • Root and tree ranking
  • Metabolic pathway analysis

All this by analyzing real COVID-19 datasets.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

COVID-19 Hackers

Course 1: Deadly Pathogen Identification

Duration: 6 hours • Rating: 4.6 (47 ratings)

In this course, you will follow bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by assembling the genome of SARS-CoV-2. The course is designed for beginners and experts in bioinformatics.

Skills you will acquire:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Designing PCR primers
  • Viral genome annotation

Course 2: Decoding the Secrets of SARS-CoV-2

Duration: 6 hours

In this course, you will follow bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by annotating the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Course 3: Mobilizing the Sources of COVID-19

Duration: 6 hours

In this course, you will follow bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

Course 4: Metabolic pathway analysis suggests drug targets for SARS-CoV-2

Duration: 8 hours

This course will introduce pathway bioinformatics principles and methods, and apply the methodologies to search for drug targets for SARS-CoV-2.

Course 5: Tracking the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2

Duration: 4 hours

In this course, you will follow the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2.