Table 3. Existing and upcoming MOOCs on bioinformatics and computational biology.
| Course name | Platform | University | Start Date and Length of the Course | Instructors |
| Bioinformatics Algorithms (Part 1) | Coursera | University of California, San Diego | First run: November 4, 2013; 14 weeks. Second run: September 15, 2014; 12 weeks | Phillip E. C. Compeau, Nikolay Vyahhi, Pavel Pevzner |
| Bioinformatics Algorithms (Part 2) | Coursera | University of California, San Diego | January 12, 2015; 12 weeks | Pavel Pevzner, Phillip E. C. Compeau |
| Bioinformatics: Introduction and Methods | Coursera | Peking University | First run: September 30, 2013; 12 weeks. Second run: March 17, 2014; 6 weeks | Ge Gao, Liping Wei |
| Bioinformatic Methods I | Coursera | University of Toronto | January 6, 2014; 6 weeks | Nicholas James Provart |
| Bioinformatic Methods II | Coursera | University of Toronto | March 3, 2014; 6 weeks | Nicholas James Provart |
| Introduction to Systems Biology | Coursera | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | First run: March 31, 2014; 10 weeks. Second run: September 2, 2014; 9 weeks and 3 days | Ravi Iyengar |
| Dynamical Modeling Methods for Systems Biology | Coursera | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Second run: March 2, 2015; 7 weeks | Eric Sobie |
| Experimental Methods in Systems Biology* | Coursera | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | October 27, 2014; 7 weeks | Marc Birtwistle |
| Network Analysis in Systems Biology | Coursera | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | January 5, 2015; 7 weeks | Avi Ma'ayan |
| Integrated Analysis in Systems Biology* | Coursera | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | April 20, 2015; 4 weeks | Susana Neves, Ravi Iyengar |
| Data Analysis for Genomics | edX | Harvard University | April 7, 2014; 9 weeks | Rafael Irizarry, Michael Love |
| Bioinformatics: Life Sciences on Your Computer | Coursera | Johns Hopkins University | June 9, 2014; 5 weeks | Bob Lessick |
| Computational Molecular Evolution | Coursera | Technical University of Denmark | Jan 13, 2014; 6 weeks | Anders Gorm Pedersen |
| Computational Neuroscience | Coursera | University of Washington | To be determined**; 8 weeks | Rajesh P. N. Rao, Adrienne Fairhall |
* Not available on www.mooc-list.com before July 28, 2014.
** This course had no available session at the time we checked its Coursera homepage (September 13, 2014).