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Best genomics Courses Online

We compared 20 Genomics courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $591.30. 8 come from a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University and The 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.

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  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B University-backed

    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....

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Udemy Certificate Grade B Lowest price here

    Medical Genetics & Genomics for Healthcare Professionals

    By the end of this course, participants will be able to:Understand the fundamental principles of genetics and genomics as they apply to human health.Recognize patterns of inheritance and their clinical significance.Inter...

    $19.99
    listed price
  3. 3
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade C University-backed

    Data Analysis for Genomics

    Offered by Harvard University

    This course focuses on data analysis techniques specifically tailored for genomics. You will explore how to interpret genomic data and apply statistical methods to gain insights in this cutting-edge field. It’s a practic...

    $591.30
    listed price
  4. 4
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade D

    Essentials of Genomics and Biomedical Informatics

    Offered by IsraelX

    This course presents clinicians and digital health enthusiasts with an overview of the data revolution in medicine and how to exploit it for research and in the clinic. The course will not make you a bioinformatician but...

    $59.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    edX MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Case Studies in Functional Genomics

    Offered by Harvard University

    Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

    $219.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    edX MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    Dynamic Programming: Applications In Machine Learning and Genomics

    Offered by The University of California, San Diego

    Learn how dynamic programming and Hidden Markov Models can be used to compare genetic strings and uncover evolution.

    $150.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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...

    $79.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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,...

    $49.00
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade A University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B University-backed

    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.

    $49.00
    listed price
  16. 16
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade B University-backed

    Advanced Bioconductor

    Offered by Harvard University

    Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

    $219.00
    listed price
  17. 17
    Udemy Certificate Grade B

    Learn Genome Assembly & Annotation in Prokaryote & Eukaryote

    Learn Step by Step Genome Assembly & Annotation in Prokaryotes and EukaryotesTurn raw DNA sequencing data into meaningful biological insights. In this practical, hands-on bioinformatics course, you’ll learn how to pe...

    $79.99
    listed price
  18. 18
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Genome Stability in Precision Medicine Course

    This course is designed for physicians and biomedical scientists engaged in genetics and genomics. We still cannot read and fully understand the nucleotides of an entire genome as you would read a book from beginning to...

    $94.99
    listed price
  19. 19
    Udemy MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Bioinformatics

    Master Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis, Genomics, Phylogenetics & Structural BioinformaticsWelcome to this comprehensive Bioinformatics course, designed to help students, researchers, and life science professionals und...

    $79.99
    listed price
  20. 20
    edX MOOC / Non-credit Grade C University-backed

    Molecular Foundations of Medicine

    Offered by Stanford University

    This course contains selected topics that will help participants understand applications of molecular biology in medicine. Topics include reading the primary literature, DNA recombination, gene expression, genomics, and...

What the prices here tell you

The 19 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $591.30, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $571.31. That is a wide gap for one subject. 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, Udemy and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University and The University of California, San Diego — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.

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