Journey to the Frontier of Computational Biology

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzASbfy8U22Ykm4tkyUmFNdKTN2Z31robaQbKNGCF1cwWPiarjU1IWLXP31LDuuEvhF_i3omJbvz5wVgJTlilsFbaWQyLkLeELeYwfQ4FHHpPg6aNr5nyCT7c4PgOot2_8FB1Ly6Az5ir/s1600/UCSanDiego-Coursera-wide+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzASbfy8U22Ykm4tkyUmFNdKTN2Z31robaQbKNGCF1cwWPiarjU1IWLXP31LDuuEvhF_i3omJbvz5wVgJTlilsFbaWQyLkLeELeYwfQ4FHHpPg6aNr5nyCT7c4PgOot2_8FB1Ly6Az5ir/s400/UCSanDiego-Coursera-wide+%25281%2529.png" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/computational-biology">Program Information</a><br /><h2 style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 36px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;">Join Us in a Top 50 MOOC of All Time!</h2><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; min-height: 20px;">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?</div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; min-height: 20px;">When you complete this Specialization, you will learn how to answer many questions in modern biology that have become inseparable from the computational approaches used to solve them. You will also obtain a toolkit of existing software resources built on these computational approaches and that are used by thousands of biologists every day in one of the fastest growing fields in science.</div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; min-height: 20px;">Although this Specialization centers on computational topics, you do not need to know how to program in order to complete it. If you are interested in programming, we feature an "Honors Track" (called "hacker track" in previous runs of the course). The Honors Track allows you to implement the bioinformatics algorithms that you will encounter along the way in dozens of automatically graded coding challenges. By completing the Honors Track, you will be a bioinformatics software professional!</div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; min-height: 20px;">Learn more about the Bioinformatics Specialization (including why we are wearing these crazy outfits) by watching our <a href="https://youtu.be/yfXeKPt0nw4" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; margin-bottom: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">introductory video</a>.</div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; min-height: 20px;">You can purchase the Specialization's print companion, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach</em>, from the <a href="http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; margin-bottom: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">textbook website</a>.</div><div style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; min-height: 20px;">Our first course, "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA", was named a top-50 MOOC of all time by <a href="https://www.class-central.com/report/top-moocs/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; margin-bottom: 0px !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Class Central</a>!</div></div>

Journey to the Frontier of Computational Biology

Program Information 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 d...

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Data Science: Big Data Specialization: UC San Diego

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6davQOk2r_Fv8BtENJErvEadEuNifLnpANHuduz0S1hdSF4SqgD5krDVpV-NA89cBZQyrh8Ao4FHDErxnsUJhXcBBoHInu-PYgbdGlJOiIOe8LL1bUuSClgNvcKShnK2t5DJexyoFInqf/s1600/UCSanDiego-Coursera-wide.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6davQOk2r_Fv8BtENJErvEadEuNifLnpANHuduz0S1hdSF4SqgD5krDVpV-NA89cBZQyrh8Ao4FHDErxnsUJhXcBBoHInu-PYgbdGlJOiIOe8LL1bUuSClgNvcKShnK2t5DJexyoFInqf/s400/UCSanDiego-Coursera-wide.png" /></a><br /><br />Program fee: paid <br /><a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bigdata">Program information</a><br /><br /><br /><div data-reactid=".0.0.1.1.1.1.0.2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><br /><div class="rc-CML styled" data-reactid=".0.0.1.1.1.1.0.1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div data-reactid=".0.0.1.1.1.1.0.1.0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 20px;">Do you need to understand big data and how it will impact your business? This Specialization is for you. You will gain an understanding of what insights big data can provide through hands-on experience with the tools and systems used by big data scientists and engineers. Previous programming experience is not required! You will be guided through the basics of using Hadoop with MapReduce, Spark, Pig and Hive. By following along with provided code, you will experience how one can perform predictive modeling and leverage graph analytics to model problems. This specialization will prepare you to ask the right questions about data, communicate effectively with data scientists, and do basic exploration of large, complex datasets. In the final Capstone Project, developed in partnership with data software company Splunk, you’ll apply the skills you learned to do basic analyses of big data.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: OpenSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><br /></div><div class="partner-marketing-blurb" data-reactid=".0.0.1.1.1.1.3.1:$53.0.1.0" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: OpenSans-Light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego is a leader in data-intensive computing and cyberinfrastructure. SDSC supports hundreds of multidisciplinary programs spanning domains from earth sciences and biology to astrophysics and bioinformatics.</div><div class="partner-short-description" data-reactid=".0.0.1.1.1.1.3.1:$53.0.1.1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: OpenSans-Light, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 25px;">UC San Diego is an academic powerhouse and economic engine, recognized as one of the top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. Innovation is central to who we are and what we do. Here, students learn that knowledge isn't just acquired in the classroom—life is their laboratory.</div></div></div></div>

Data Science: Big Data Specialization: UC San Diego

Program fee: paid Program information Do you need to understand big data and how it will impact your business? This Specialization is for yo...

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