💻🧬 Bioinformatics/CompBio resources

An ever-growing list of courses, tutorials, repositories, creators, textbooks, and learning material for a wide range of bioinformatics and computational biology topics. Below is a collection of resources that have helped me learn and develop my computational biology skills

Name	Brief description	Link
Category: Online learning material
Glittr	Provides a collection of repositories encompassing various topics on computational life sciences, including omics data analysis, scripting and languages, pipelines, and more.	Website
EMBL on-demand training	Self-paced tutorials and recorded webinars provided by EMBL-EBI encompassing a variety of bioinformatics topics.	Website
SIB upcoming courses	Upcoming courses provided by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Some courses are virtual while others are on-site. You may find the training material for a given course uploaded and available to view.	Website
Teach Open CADD	A learning platform which provides learning material for a variety of computer-aided drug design topics, including both theoretical and practical knowledge.	Website
MIT Open Courseware	Offers a free collection of materials from MIT courses encompassing multiple fields, including bioinformatics. Provides course material at both an undergraduate or graduate level.	Website
Category: Course providers
FutureLearn	A digital educational platform which provides courses (free or paid) encompassing a variety of topics/fields, including bioinformatics. Courses typically offer exercises, quizzes, and case studies for a more engaging learning experience.	Website Wellcome Connecting Science on FutureLearn
Coursera	An online course provider which provides courses (free or paid) encompassing a variety of topics/fields, including bioinformatics. Courses typically tasks, quizzes, and peer-reviewed assignments for a more engaging learning experience.	Website
edX	An online learning platform which provides fundamental and advance courses on a variety of topics/fields, including a few courses pertaining to computational biology/bioinformatics.	Website
Category: Textbooks
Next Generation Sequencing and Data Analysis - Melanie Kappelmann-Fenzl	This textbook explains various NGS protocols as well as how to manage and analyze the libraries resulting from said protocols.	Link
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics - Jonathan Pevsner	Offers comprehensive explanations on various bioinformatics and genomics topics such as nucleic acid sequencing and analysis, bioinformatics algorithms, as well as examples and guides to accessing and analyzing biological data.	Link
The Biostar Handbook	A comprehensive, practical, and hands-on textbook that covers essential topics in bioinformatics including data formats, ontology, omics data analysis, and the unix command line. It is written in a tutorial-style format that will help you on your path to becoming a biostar!	Link
Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing - Hands-on Workshop	Provides foundational knowledge on NGS data analysis, covering the entire pipeline from raw data quality control to downstream analysis.	E-copy link
Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach - Pavel A. Pevzner and Phillip Compeau	A hands-on and engaging textbook about the computational foundations of bioinformatics. The textbook provides code challenging for a more interactive approach.	Link
The Unix Workbench - Sean Kross	This textbook covers the fundamentals of the Unix command line.	E-copy link
Category: Creators/Instructors
Evan Peikon	Evan Peikon provides helpful bioinformatics tutorials, guides, and projects.	GitHub Substack LinkedIn
Ming Tang	Ming Tang shares heplful insights and tutorials for bioinformaticians on multiple platforms (See 'All links' for the full list). He also wrote a chapter in the aforementioned Biostar Handbook.	Youtube LinkedIn GitHub All links
Chioma Onyido	Chioma Onyido provides useful and helpful tips as well as shares helpful resources for bioinformaticians.	LinkedIn
Dean Lee	Dean Lee shares helpful insights for bioinformatics through his Figure One Lab newsletter and his LinkedIn page.	GitHub LinkedIn Figure One Lab
Aneesa Valentine/Bioinformatics: The missing semester	Aneesa Valentine writes substack articles on practical bioinformatics methods such as omics data analysis.	Substack
Category: Other repositories/Curated lists/Websites
Learn-Bioinformatics	A curated repository containing bioinformatics and computational biology resources, primarily in English, with some resources also available in Arabic.	Repository
OSSU Bioinformatics	A self-taught bioinformatics curriculum compiled from free online courses. N.B.: This curriculum is no longer being updated, so some information may not be up-to-date. However, you may still find the knowledge provided helpful.	Repository
Bioinformatics_algorithms	This repository provides a general understanding and implementation of bioinformatics algorithms and the BioPython package.	Repository
Happy Belly Bioinformatics	A hands-on and practical resource that provides tutorials and guides on essential bioinformatics skills.	Website
Bioinformatics workshop for beginners	This repository contains an overview of fundamental bioinformatics topics.	Repository
Bioinformagician tutorials	Bioinformatics tutorials and scripts by youtuber Bioinformagician. Includes tutorial on RNA-seq analysis, VCF file analysis, WGCNA, and single-cell analysis.	Repository
Awesome bioinformatics	A curated repository of free and open-source bioinformatics software, resources, and libraries.	Repository
Harvard Informatics/Learning bioinformatics at home	Bioinformatics resources gathered by the Harvard Informatics group and other contributors basic and specialized bioinformatics topics online	Repository
Bioinformatics workbook	Hands-on bioinformatics and data analysis tutorials	Website
DIY transcriptomics	This wesbite covers best practices for RNA-seq data analysis using R/Bioconductor	Website
learnbioinformatics	This website offers a curated list of free online resources to learn bioinformatics/computational biology	Website