Forum:List of free, online training resources for researchers
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mchair18 ▴ 80

Hi All,

I apologize ahead of time if this has already been addressed and exists elsewhere, but I was wondering if someone is working on/has put together an updated list of exclusively free, online training resources for researchers who are locked out of their labs and quarantined at home for the foreseeable future. I did some digging but most of what I found was older, or a mixture of in person and online resources.

I know that my institution (and I'm sure many others) are instituting a "teleworking" policy, which is much easier for some folks than others. Many lab-based researchers have expressed interest in using some of the time that they now have to try to enhance their knowledge/skill-set outside of their normal comfort zone. In my mind, the bioinformatics community is uniquely positioned to provide them with endless opportunities to do just this, considering the open-source nature of the community.

I've put together a "starter" list from some resources that I've personalized used, or have on my own to-do list, but I know there are a ton of other opportunities out there which would be hugely beneficial for everyone looking to learn!

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Hi mchair18, I removed a certain keyword from the title as it does not have anything to do with the actual content of the post and could be interpreted as clickbait (no offense, I am sure this was not your intend). You are very welcome towards curating a list of free-access courses and tutorials. Thanks.

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No problem-just trying to put things into perspective for my reasoning behind trying to put this together, as I think it will be particularly important to have a list like this at the moment!

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mchair18 ▴ 80

An update on this, we ended up putting together a list of courses that researchers/students could access for free, but that also provided tracking, course completions, graded quizzes, etc. Here is the list for those who are interested.

General Biology/Life Sciences:

Molecular Biology - Part 1: DNA Replication and Repair
Molecular Biology - Part 2: Transcription and Transposition
Molecular Biology – Part 3: RNA Processing and Translation
Principles of Biochemistry

Statistics:

Statistics and R
Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics
Statistical Inference and Modeling for High-throughput Experiments
Introduction to Probability
Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Demystifying Biomedical Big Data: A User’s Guide
Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
High-Dimensional Data Analysis
Introduction to Bioconductor
Case Studies in Functional Genomics
High-performance Computing for Reproducible Genomics

Business

The Science and Business of Biotechnology
Technology Entrepreneurship: Lab to Market
Prescription Drug Regulation, Cost, and Access: Current Controversies in Context
Shaping Work of the Future
Introduction to Marketing

Coding

Learn R
Learn SQL
Learn Python 2
Learn How to Code
Java Tutorial

Data Science/Visualization

Data Science: Visualization
Data Science: R Basics
Data Science: Inference and Modeling
Data Science: Wrangling
Data Science: Machine Learning
Foundations of Data Science: Computational Thinking with Python

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