Thread by @MichaelRetchin

🧪🏫 11 Biotechnology Courses

Not every school offers accessible courses on synthetic biology and bioengineering. Here are free courses for learning principles of biotechnology.

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This is one in a series of threads on Learning Biotech, highlighting resources for aspiring biotech founders across the startup ecosystem.

https://twitter.com/MichaelRetchin/status/1365712597463490560?s=20

Biotechnology Course #1

Design Principles of Genetic Circuits

A fabulous course taught by @elowitzlab. Check out the interactive code [be150.caltech.edu/2020/content/i…].

be150.caltech.edu/2020/index.html

Biotechnology Course #2

Build-a-Cell

@buildacell is a community, course, and seminar series teaching principles of synthetic biology.

buildacell.org

Biotechnology Course #3

You likely know about MIT OpenCourseWare, but I want to highlight a few.

1) Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology, which features great lectures by @geochurch and Ron Weiss.

2) the entire bioengineering catalog
ocw.mit.edu/courses/biolog…

Biotechnology Course #4

iBiology - Synthetic Biology

@ibiology has numerous great talks and courses.

Check out

Engineering Life [ibiology.org/online-biology…]

Synthetic Biology [ibiology.org/playlists/synt…]

Bench to Bedside [ibiology.org/playlists/benc…]

Biotechnology Course #5

CSBerg

Organized by @patrick_diep and other students! A really great resource on synthetic biology / programmed genetics.

youtube.com/channel/UChXkH…

Biotechnology Course #6

Deep Learning for Molecules and Materials

@andrewwhite01 introduces deep learning and applications for predicting chemical properties.

whitead.github.io/dmol-book/intr…

Biotechnology Course #7

Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (h/t @GutierrezJahir)

Taught by @xshirleyliu. Covers basics of bioinformatics and genomics up through analyzing CRISPR screens and immunotherapy biomarkers.

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Biotechnology Course #8

UCI Open Chemical Biology (Chem 128)

An open, high quality course on chemical biology from UCIrvine. They have many other great courses as well.

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Biotechnology Course #9

TeachOpenCADD

Another excellent cheminformatics course, covering the basics of computer-aided drug design, from @DominiqueSydow and @jaime_rgp.

projects.volkamerlab.org/teachopencadd/

Biotechnology Course #10

Physical Biology (h/t @mrazomej)

Taught by Rob Phillips @Caltech - all the videos are available on YouTube! A fascinating course on the biophysics/mathematics governing the living cell.

rpgroup.caltech.edu/aph161/syllabus

Biotechnology Course #11

A Highly Opinionated List of Open Source Cheminformatics Resources

Not exactly a course, but I want to highlight these resources, compiled by @wpwalters.

github.com/PatWalters/res…

Are there any courses that I missed? Let me know!

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