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Introduction to Bioinformatics

Learn the fundamentals of bioinformatics — from biological databases and file formats to sequence alignment, BLAST searches, and phylogenetic analysis.

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Article15 min

What is Bioinformatics?

An overview of bioinformatics as a discipline — where biology meets computer science. Learn the key questions bioinformatics aims to answer.

Video20 min

Navigating NCBI & GenBank

Explore the National Center for Biotechnology Information — the world's largest repository of molecular biology data.

Video18 min

Exploring Ensembl & UniProt

Learn how to use Ensembl for genome browsing and UniProt for protein sequence & function research.

Exercise25 min

Hands-on: Retrieving a Gene Record

Practice retrieving the BRCA1 gene record from NCBI and finding its protein in UniProt.

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