MOOCs

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Genomic and Precision Medicine

Material type: Scheduled
Submitted by Ms Rehab Ahmed - March 12, 2016, 1:05 am

Introduction to basics of genomics and the clinical aspects of genomic medicine.
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

Material type: Scheduled
Submitted by Dr Vicky Nembaware - April 21, 2016, 2:16 pm

Copied from the Coursera site:
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution is a college-level class being offered simultaneously to new students at Duke University. The course gives interested people a very basic overview of some principles behind these very fundamental areas of biology. We often hear about new "genome sequences,"…
Software Carpentry instructor training

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Kim Gurwitz - April 22, 2016, 7:51 pm

"We offer a free online training course for people who would like to teach Software Carpentry, and to learn more about teaching in general along the way. The course takes 2-4 hours a week for 12-14 weeks (depending on interruptions); most work is done on trainees' own time, and is posted to the course blog. While we would like to help…
Emergence of Life

Material type: Scheduled
Submitted by - May 21, 2016, 12:56 am

This course is broken up into 8 weekly modules covering the following topics:
Week 1: Course Welcome, Geological Time, and the Nature of Science
Week 2: The Tree of Life and Early Earth Environments
Week 3: Fossilization and Precambrian Life-Earth Interaction
Week 4: Paleozoic Life After the Advent of Skeletons
Week 5…
Statistics: Making Sense of Data

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa - June 23, 2016, 7:52 pm

This course will provide an intuitive introduction to applied statistical reasoning, introducing fundamental statistical skills and acquainting students with the full process of inquiry and evaluation used in investigations in a wide range of fields. In particular, the course will cover methods of data collection, constructing effective graphical…
EBI: Next Generation Sequencing Practical Course

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa - June 24, 2016, 12:49 am

This course is designed to impart the following objectives: understanding of some principles behind NGS; knowledge of the challenges created by NGS; knowledge of how to submit and retrieve NGS data to and from databases and understanding the uses of NGS data in whole genome assembly, gene expression analysis, genome annotation, gene regulation…
eBiomics: Good practices and specific methods for using bioinformatics resources

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa - June 24, 2016, 12:51 am

eBiomics is composed of several interconnected sections that can be accessed through different interactive activities. The 5 main sections of the website are: Resources ( a catalogue of selected databases and data analysis software that are briefly described and illustrated with examples); Conceptual flowcharts (a collection of clickable images…
EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa - June 24, 2016, 12:54 am

Familiarity with the technology and biological use cases of high throughput sequencing is required, as is some experience with R/Bioconductor. The lectures give insight into how biological knowledge can be generated from RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq experiments and illustrate different ways of analysing such data. Practicals consist of computer exercises…
PLINK v1.90

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa - June 24, 2016, 1:10 am

The focus of PLINK is purely on analysis of genotype/phenotype data. using PLINK, researchers can read data in a variety of formats, recode and reorder files, merge two or more files, extract subsets (SNPs or individuals), flip strand of SNPs and compress data in a binary file format. PLINK also enables researchers to perform summary statistics…
Six weeks to Genomic Awareness

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Olivia Matshabane - September 20, 2016, 7:48 pm

Who Should View This Training
The course is designed to be accessible to a broad audience of practitioners across all sectors of the public health and related workforce including public health nurses, health educators, and others.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Recognize current genetics…