This course is your complete beginner-friendly guide to mastering the National Center for Biotechnology Information — one of the most powerful platforms used in genomics, biotechnology, and clinical research. Instead of just learning theory, this course focuses on practical, hands-on learning. You will explore how biological data is stored, accessed, and analyzed using real examples.
You will learn how to navigate essential NCBI databases such as Gene, Nucleotide, Protein, PubMed, ClinVar, dbSNP, and OMIM. You will also understand important sequence formats like FASTA and GenBank, which are widely used in bioinformatics workflows. One of the key highlights of this course is learning how to perform sequence analysis using BLAST, interpret alignment results, and connect gene-level information with mutations, diseases, and research publications.
By the end of this course, you will be able to follow a complete bioinformatics workflow: Gene → Sequence → BLAST → Variant → Literature
