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Python for bioinformatics

Python is how biologists stop doing the same thing by hand a thousand times. These courses take you from your first script to parsing sequence files and searching NCBI from your own code.

  • 7courses
  • 279video lessons
  • $11.99cheapest paid course
  • $21.74a month for everything

What you will learn here

  • Write Python from scratch
  • Handle sequences with BioPython
  • Read and write FASTA and GenBank files
  • Search NCBI and run BLAST in code
  • Build phylogenetic trees
  • Open PDB structure files

Who takes these courses. Biologists who have never written code and researchers who want to automate the analysis they already do.

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