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Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners

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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.

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I'm far from claiming expertise in the field. But I'd start with the UCSD Bioinformatics Specialization course

https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioinformatics

The Biostar Handbook and BioPython library also have active communities for self learners

https://www.biostarhandbook.com/

http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html

Best of luck ;)

mojoe
thanks, great resources!
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