15 Best Genomics Courses Online
We compared 15 Genomics courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $591.30. 7 come from a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University and The University of California, San Diego. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $19.99 – $591.30
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 22 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to "genomics" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $591.30, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
What is a genome? A genome contains all of the information that a cell needs to develop, function, and reproduce itself, and all the information needed for those cells to come together to form a person, plant, or animal....
$49.00listed price -
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Medical Genetics & Genomics for Healthcare Professionals
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:Understand the fundamental principles of genetics and genomics as they apply to human health.Recognize patterns of inheritance and their clinical significance.Inter...
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Data Analysis for Genomics
Offered by Harvard University
This course focuses on data analysis techniques specifically tailored for genomics. You will explore how to interpret genomic data and apply statistical methods to gain insights in this cutting-edge field. It’s a practic...
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Essentials of Genomics and Biomedical Informatics
Offered by IsraelX
This course presents clinicians and digital health enthusiasts with an overview of the data revolution in medicine and how to exploit it for research and in the clinic. The course will not make you a bioinformatician but...
$59.00listed price -
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Case Studies in Functional Genomics
Offered by Harvard University
Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.
$219.00listed price -
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Dynamic Programming: Applications In Machine Learning and Genomics
Offered by The University of California, San Diego
Learn how dynamic programming and Hidden Markov Models can be used to compare genetic strings and uncover evolution.
$150.00listed price -
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Data Visualization for Genome Biology
Offered by University of Toronto
The past decade has seen a vast increase in the amount of data available to biologists, driven by the dramatic decrease in cost and concomitant rise in throughput of various next-generation sequencing technologies, such...
$49.00listed price -
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Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV)
Offered by University of California San Diego
In the previous course in the Specialization, we learned how to compare genes, proteins, and genomes. One way we can use these methods is in order to construct a "Tree of Life" showing how a large collection of related o...
$79.00listed price -
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Genomic Data Science
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
With genomics sparks a revolution in medical discoveries, it becomes imperative to be able to better understand the genome, and be able to leverage the data and information from genomic datasets. Genomic Data Science is...
$49.00listed price -
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Bioinformatics
Offered by University of California San Diego
Join Us in a Top 50 MOOC of All Time! How do we sequence and compare genomes? How do we identify the genetic basis for disease? How do we construct an evolutionary Tree of Life for all species on Earth? When you complete...
$49.00listed price -
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Plant Bioinformatic Methods
Offered by University of Toronto
The past 15 years have been exciting ones in plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced, RNA-seq has enabled transcriptome-wide expression profiling, and a proliferation of "-seq"-based methods has perm...
$49.00listed price -
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Bacterial Bioinformatics
Offered by University of Virginia
This course provides demonstrations and exercises for performing common genomics-based analysis tasks of bacterial sequence data. It uses BV-BRC, the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (merger of PATRIC,...
$49.00listed price -
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Applied Bioinformatics
Offered by University of California San Diego
This Specialization is intended for anyone to learn practical applied Bioinformatics skills by studying real data from the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you're new to the world of computational biology, or you're a bioinfor...
$49.00listed price -
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Statistics for Genomic Data Science
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
An introduction to the statistics behind the most popular genomic data science projects. This is the sixth course in the Genomic Big Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University.
$49.00listed price -
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Advanced Bioconductor
Offered by Harvard University
Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.
$219.00listed price
Best Genomics Courses Online compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Genomics: Decoding the Universal Language of Life | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Medical Genetics & Genomics for Healthcare Professionals | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 3 | Data Analysis for Genomics | edX | Harvard University | $591.30 | View → |
| 4 | Essentials of Genomics and Biomedical Informatics | edX | IsraelX | $59.00 | View → |
| 5 | Case Studies in Functional Genomics | edX | Harvard University | $219.00 | View → |
| 6 | Dynamic Programming: Applications In Machine Learning and Genomics | edX | The University of California, San Diego | $150.00 | View → |
| 7 | Data Visualization for Genome Biology | Coursera | University of Toronto | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV) | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $79.00 | View → |
| 9 | Genomic Data Science | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Bioinformatics | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Plant Bioinformatic Methods | Coursera | University of Toronto | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Bacterial Bioinformatics | Coursera | University of Virginia | $49.00 | View → |
| 13 | Applied Bioinformatics | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Statistics for Genomic Data Science | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Advanced Bioconductor | edX | Harvard University | $219.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $591.30, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $571.31. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, Udemy and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 7 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University and The University of California, San Diego — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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