Resources
Curated bioinformatics learning materials, databases, and tools
Learning
9 resourcesLearn bioinformatics by solving problems. Covers Python, algorithms, and classical bioinformatics problems interactively.
A free, open-source self-paced curriculum for a complete bioinformatics education, curated from top university courses.
Free online training courses in bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, and data analysis from the European Bioinformatics Institute.
Workshop materials from the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core covering RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, scRNA-seq, and more.
Hundreds of free, community-developed tutorials for data analysis using Galaxy — from genomics to proteomics and imaging.
Jupyter-based teaching platform for computer-aided drug design using open-source Python tools. By the Volkamer Lab at Charité Berlin.
Clearly explained statistics and machine learning concepts, with a strong focus on biology and bioinformatics applications.
Hands-on lessons for Shell, Git, Python, and R — designed for researchers with no programming background.
Seven-course specialization by Pavel Pevzner and Phillip Compeau (UC San Diego) covering algorithms and sequence analysis.
MD & Drug Design
5 resourcesThe most widely used GROMACS tutorial series by Justin Lemkul. Covers protein-ligand systems, membranes, and free energy calculations.
Official NAMD tutorials from the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at UIUC. Covers equilibration, steered MD, and free energy perturbation.
Web platform for building complex biomolecular systems. Generates ready-to-run input files for GROMACS, NAMD, AMBER, and CHARMM.
Open-source, Python-based platform covering ligand-based and structure-based drug design in Jupyter notebooks.
Galaxy-based workflows for MD simulation analysis — integrates GROMACS, MDAnalysis, and visualization tools in reproducible pipelines.
Databases
10 resourcesHome of GenBank, PubMed, BLAST, RefSeq, and many other essential life-sciences databases and tools.
Comprehensive protein sequence and functional annotation database, covering Swiss-Prot (curated) and TrEMBL (automated).
Archive of 3D structural data of proteins, nucleic acids, and complexes determined by X-ray, NMR, and cryo-EM.
AI-predicted protein structures for nearly all known proteins, produced by DeepMind and EMBL-EBI.
Genome browser and annotation database for vertebrate and model organism genomes, maintained by EMBL-EBI.
Public repository for high-throughput gene expression and functional genomics data (microarray, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, etc.).
Database of known and predicted protein–protein interactions, integrating experiments, text mining, and comparative genomics.
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes — reference database for biological pathways, diseases, drugs, and genomes.
International effort to map every cell type in the human body using single-cell genomics and spatial transcriptomics.
Gene expression data across human tissues and the genetic variants (eQTLs) that regulate them.
Tools & Software
9 resourcesA community effort to collect curated, peer-reviewed Nextflow pipelines. 100+ analysis pipelines ready to run, covering RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, scRNA-seq, variant calling, and more.
Web-based platform for accessible, reproducible bioinformatics analysis — no command line required.
Open-source R packages for bioinformatics: differential expression, ChIP-seq, single-cell, and more.
Genome Analysis Toolkit by the Broad Institute — industry-standard tools for variant discovery in high-throughput sequencing data.
Reactive workflow framework for scalable and reproducible bioinformatics pipelines across HPC and cloud environments.
Python-based workflow management system for reproducible and scalable data analyses.
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool — find regions of similarity between nucleotide or protein sequences and database entries.
Open-source platform for visualizing and analyzing biological networks and pathways.
High-performance desktop and web application for interactive exploration of genomic data.
Community
3 resourcesQuestion & answer forum for bioinformatics — search before posting, the answer is probably already there.
International organization for students and young researchers in computational biology, affiliated with ISCB.
Our organization's GitHub — past training materials, scripts, and resources from RSG Turkiye events.