Online Courses
A fully interactive version of Bioinformatics Algorithms, with automatically graded programming challenges, is available on its own or as part of an online course.
Cogniterra
Free to try then $79.95 once
- All eleven chapters, interactive
- Autograded code challenges in many languages
- Certificate of completion
Coursera
$49 per month, 7-day free trial
- The acclaimed Bioinformatics Specialization
- Certificate through Coursera
Stand-alone programming exercises on Rosalind
Open education is important to us. If you have the print book, or you are reading the free chapters on this site, you can solve the book's programming exercises for free on Rosalind, named in honor of Rosalind Franklin.
Using the book in your own course
Both authors, and many instructors who have adopted the book, use the interactive text and lecture videos for a flipped classroom: students work through the text on Cogniterra, which frees class time for exercises that reinforce it. We describe this approach in a PLOS Computational Biology article.
We offer discounted pricing to license the interactive textbook for university courses, and we are happy to add you to our network of instructors, which shares PowerPoint slides for every chapter and other materials. Contact us to learn more.
Algorithms beyond biology
If you want to learn more about algorithms in general, we think you will love the edX MicroMasters Program in Algorithms and Data Structures, which integrates some material from this book while teaching many fundamental algorithms across computer science.