Important notice! We do not provide Virtual Bioinformatics Courses for paying customers any more, only for the students from Finnish universities (students which belong to a group with a special agreement - see: application form)!

IBT Bioinformatics is actively developing courses for scientists and students who use or will need to use bioinformatics methods and programs in their research. We can say that the distance learning concept is highly suitable for this topic.

Our Virtual Bioinformatics project has been running nearly 10 years, and has been awarded by Ministry of Education, and loved by our students all these years.

Our web courses are being used as part of the curriculum in the Finnish universities of Helsinki, Tampere and Turku, in particular the joint Bioinformatics MSc programme in Universities of Tampere and Turku

Currently we offer three modules, each equivalent to approximately two weeks of full-time study. The extent of each course is given in credit points (cp, European standard ECTS credits).

Introduction to Bioinformatics    (3 cp)

Concise information
PowerPoint introduction, in English
Course overview
Instructions to students (from our course pages)
Results from opinion poll 2001-2003

Genomics, Transcriptomics, and Proteomics    (4 cp)

Concise information
PowerPoint introduction, in Finnish or in English

Structural bioinformatics    (4 cp)

Course information