11 Best Genomics Courses on Coursera
We compared 11 Genomics courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 5 come from a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto and University of California San Diego. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 11
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 11 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "genomics" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
-
1
Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
What is a genome? A genome contains all of the information that a cell needs to develop, function, and reproduce itself, and all the information needed for those cells to come together to form a person, plant, or animal....
$49.00listed price -
-
2
Data Visualization for Genome Biology
Offered by University of Toronto
The past decade has seen a vast increase in the amount of data available to biologists, driven by the dramatic decrease in cost and concomitant rise in throughput of various next-generation sequencing technologies, such...
$49.00listed price -
3
Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV)
Offered by University of California San Diego
In the previous course in the Specialization, we learned how to compare genes, proteins, and genomes. One way we can use these methods is in order to construct a "Tree of Life" showing how a large collection of related o...
$79.00listed price -
-
4
Bacterial Bioinformatics
Offered by University of Virginia
This course provides demonstrations and exercises for performing common genomics-based analysis tasks of bacterial sequence data. It uses BV-BRC, the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (merger of PATRIC,...
$49.00listed price -
5
Genomic Data Science
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
With genomics sparks a revolution in medical discoveries, it becomes imperative to be able to better understand the genome, and be able to leverage the data and information from genomic datasets. Genomic Data Science is...
$49.00listed price -
6
Bioinformatics
Offered by University of California San Diego
Join Us in a Top 50 MOOC of All Time! How do we sequence and compare genomes? How do we identify the genetic basis for disease? How do we construct an evolutionary Tree of Life for all species on Earth? When you complete...
$49.00listed price -
-
7
Plant Bioinformatic Methods
Offered by University of Toronto
The past 15 years have been exciting ones in plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced, RNA-seq has enabled transcriptome-wide expression profiling, and a proliferation of "-seq"-based methods has perm...
$49.00listed price -
8
Applied Bioinformatics
Offered by University of California San Diego
This Specialization is intended for anyone to learn practical applied Bioinformatics skills by studying real data from the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you're new to the world of computational biology, or you're a bioinfor...
$49.00listed price -
9
Coursera MOOC / Non-creditResearcher's guide to RNA sequencing data
Offered by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
This course is a follow up course to "Choosing genomics tools" which dives into further detail about RNA informatics methods! This course is for individuals who: - Have taken Researcher's Guide to Fundamentals of Omic Da...
$49.00listed price -
10
Coursera MOOC / Non-creditResearcher's Guide to Omic Data
Offered by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
This specialization is intended for researchers or research enthusiasts of all different levels to help them know what their omic data means and how to learn about it! With an overhwelming abundance of types of data and...
$49.00listed price -
11
Statistics for Genomic Data Science
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
An introduction to the statistics behind the most popular genomic data science projects. This is the sixth course in the Genomic Big Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University.
$49.00listed price
Best Genomics Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Data Visualization for Genome Biology | Coursera | University of Toronto | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV) | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $79.00 | View → |
| 4 | Bacterial Bioinformatics | Coursera | University of Virginia | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Genomic Data Science | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Bioinformatics | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Plant Bioinformatic Methods | Coursera | University of Toronto | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Applied Bioinformatics | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Researcher's guide to RNA sequencing data | Coursera | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Researcher's Guide to Omic Data | Coursera | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Statistics for Genomic Data Science | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 11 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 5 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto and University of California San Diego — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.