Phase 2 — Core Bioinformatics
Module 11

Biological Databases

Know where the data lives and how to fetch it programmatically. Download genomes, annotations, and raw reads from NCBI, Ensembl, and TAIR without clicking through web interfaces — write scripts instead.

Week 16Timeline
~7 hrsStudy time
FREEAlways
What you'll learn

Topics covered in this module

NCBI · SRA
Ensembl BioMart
TAIR
Entrez Direct
Biopython Entrez

📋 Not sure where this fits? Module 11 is part of the full bioinformatics curriculum — a structured 42-week learning path from Bash to single-cell RNA-seq.

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