Hacking COVID-19 Course 5: Tracing SARS-CoV-2's Evolution

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Hacking COVID-19 Course 5: Tracing SARS-CoV-2's Evolution
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Overview

Duration	4 hours
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Credential	Certificate

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Overview
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Curriculum

Hacking COVID-19 Course 5: Tracing SARS-CoV-2's Evolution
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Coursera
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of the course
Assignment and projects for practice
Financial aid available

Hacking COVID-19 Course 5: Tracing SARS-CoV-2's Evolution
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Coursera
Course details

What are the course deliverables?

Learn new concepts from industry experts
Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
Earn a shareable career certificate

More about this course

In this course, you will follow in the footsteps of the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by tracing the evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Whether you're new to the world of computational biology, or you are a bioinformatics expert seeking to learn about its applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, or somewhere in between, this course is for you! As you go through this journey, we will introduce and explain genomic concepts and give you many opportunities to practice your skills, and we will provide a series of problems with gradually increasing complexity
This fifth course will discuss the "Italy First" hypothesis of COVID-19 origins, and it will cover bioinformatics methods for rooting and dating a phylogenetic tree inferred from SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences

Hacking COVID-19 Course 5: Tracing SARS-CoV-2's Evolution
at
Coursera
Curriculum

Week 1

How we can use rooted and dated phylogenetic trees to study the emergence of a virus, with the origins of COVID-19 as our primary inspiration, but with a real case study about HIV transmission as our focus

Week 2

Perform multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic inference, tree rooting, and tree dating to investigate the "Italy First" hypothesis of COVID-19 origins