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7 Day Recorded Course • Self Paced • Lifetime Access

Foundations of Bioinformatics

Finally understand bioinformatics the way your professor never explained it. Beginner friendly, no coding required, and taught completely in simple English.

BLAST NGS PyMOL MEGA Phylogenetics Protein Bioinformatics
✓ Recorded Videos ✓ Live Q&A Session ✓ Cheatsheet ✓ Certificate ✓ Lifetime Access

About This Course

A fully recorded self paced course built for biology and biotech students who want practical bioinformatics skills instead of only theory. If you understand basic molecular biology and have a laptop, you're ready to start.

Who Is This For?

  • BSc and MSc students in Biotech, Microbiology or Genetics
  • PhD scholars who need a quick structured foundation
  • Wet-lab researchers moving into computational work
  • Anyone who has been putting bioinformatics off

Tools You Will Use

Bioinformatics Tools

What You Get

  • 7 recorded video modules with real demos
  • Live Q&A masterclass after the course ends
  • Handout cheatsheet to keep forever
  • Official certificate & Case studies (BRCA1/2)

1000+

Students Enrolled

4.8 ★

Average Rating

25+

Countries Reached

100+

Hours Delivered

The Curriculum

7 Days • 7 Modules • Maximum Impact

Day 1: Intro to Bioinformatics

  • What bioinformatics is & why it matters
  • Central Dogma and data flow
  • Case studies: BRCA1/2 & SARS-CoV-2
  • Drug discovery & personalized med

Day 2: Biological Databases

  • GenBank, UniProt, PDB & domain DBs
  • Accession numbers & retrieval
  • FASTA & GenBank formats
  • Hands-on NCBI UniProt & PDB

Day 3: Alignment & BLAST

  • Global vs local alignment
  • Needleman-Wunsch & Smith-Waterman
  • PAM, BLOSUM & gap penalties
  • BLAST, BLASTp & BLASTx examples

Day 4: Phylogenetics

  • Evolutionary trees & what they tell you
  • Rooted vs unrooted trees
  • UPGMA & Neighbor Joining
  • Building trees with MEGA & IQ-TREE

Day 5: Genomics and NGS

  • Sanger vs Next-Gen Sequencing
  • RNA-Seq pipeline: FASTQ to results
  • Gene expression & DESeq2 concepts
  • Reading heatmaps & volcano plots

Day 6: Protein Bioinformatics

  • Protein structure levels explained
  • X-ray NMR Cryo-EM vs AlphaFold
  • Visualizing 3D structures (PyMOL)
  • Active site identification overview

Day 7: Resources & Next Steps

  • Key formats: FASTA, FASTQ & PDB
  • UCSC Genome Browser & Ensembl
  • KEGG pathways & further resources
  • Full handout cheatsheet included

What Students Say

★★★★★

"The BLAST module alone was worth the entire fee. I finally understand what an E-value means."

Priya S.

MSc PMBB, DU
★★★★★

"Nobody teaches protein structures this way. The PyMOL session was a complete revelation."

Arjun K.

BSc Bioinformatics
★★★★★

"After 7 days I built my first phylogenetic tree and actually understood every branch."

Karthik M.

Research Intern, IISc