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The Wanted
Bioinformatics
Diploma

Genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics — taught live with Dr. Ashraf over 60 intensive days in a cohort of driven peers from across Africa.

Genomics Transcriptomics Proteomics Live Cohort 60 Days 13 Courses
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60
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Why This Programme

Built differently.
Designed for Africa.

Everything a bioinformatics career demands — in one live, cohort-based diploma at a price built for African scientists.

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End-to-End Curriculum

From molecular biology fundamentals to advanced GWAS and protein structure prediction — a complete bioinformatics education in one cohort.

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Expert-Led Live Sessions

Dr. Ashraf delivers every session live. Real-time questions, live coding, and instant feedback — no recorded passivity.

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Pan-African Cohort

Learn alongside driven researchers from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and beyond. Build a network that lasts a career.

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Hands-On Computing

Every course includes real pipeline work — FASTQ processing, Python scripting, BLAST searches, and phylogenetic tree building.

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Diploma Certificate

Earn a verifiable diploma upon completion, recognised for its rigour across African academic and research institutions.

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Unbeatable Value

The full 13-course programme for just $100 — over 55% cheaper than enrolling in individual courses separately.

Live Instructor
Dr. Ashraf — Programme Director
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Prof. Ashraf

Programme Director & Lead Instructor

Your Instructor

Trained by the best.
Teaching for Africa.

Dr. Ashraf is a computational biologist whose work spans genomics, transcriptomics, and structural bioinformatics. With years of research and training experience across the continent, he has made it his mission to bring world-class bioinformatics education to African scientists — live, rigorous, and affordable.

He designed this diploma to be the programme he wishes had existed when he started out: technically deep, practically grounded, and built for the African research context.

  • 🔬Research active in genomics and structural biology with peer-reviewed publications across high-impact journals.
  • 🏫Hundreds of students trained across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa.
  • ⚙️Hands-on teaching style — live terminal sessions, real data, real pipelines, no shortcuts.
  • 🌐Committed to access — world-class quality at African-accessible pricing.
The Curriculum

13 courses. One diploma.
Zero gaps.

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Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology
Course 01

Molecular Biology & Introduction to Bioinformatics

The bedrock of every bioinformatics career.

Master the molecular foundations of life — DNA, RNA, gene regulation, genome evolution — and discover how these biological processes generate the data bioinformatics analyses.

₦25,000
≈ $30
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Sequence Analysis
Sequence Analysis
Course 02

Sequence Analysis & Bioinformatics Software

Parse, analyse, and visualise biological sequences like a professional.

Move from reading biology to computing biology. From parsing FASTA files in Python to visualising 3D protein structures — become a confident user of the full bioinformatics ecosystem.

₦22,000
≈ $27
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Biological Databases
Biological Databases
Course 03

Biological Databases & Tools

Master the world's biological data — search smarter, find faster.

NCBI, UniProt, PDB, BLAST, Primer3 — become an expert in the databases and tools every bioinformatics researcher uses daily. No more guessing what that E-value means.

₦22,000
≈ $27
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Sequence Alignment & Phylogenetics
Phylogenetics
Course 04

Sequence Alignment & Phylogenetics

Trace evolution algorithmically — from sequence to tree.

Understand alignment at the algorithmic level and build publication-quality phylogenetic trees. Implement Needleman-Wunsch from scratch AND produce trees used in real publications.

₦22,000
≈ $27
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NGS & Genome Analysis
NGS & Genome Analysis
Course 05

Genome Analysis & Next-Generation Sequencing

Process a whole genome — from raw FASTQ to annotated variants.

The complete NGS course. From sequencing technology principles to a working FASTQ→VCF pipeline. Run real commands on real data and understand every step GATK is performing.

₦22,000
≈ $27
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Programming for Bioinformatics I
Programming for Bioinformatics I
Course 06

Programming for Bioinformatics I

Python · R · Linux · Snakemake — write code that works in any lab.

The single most important course in the program. By the end you will write production-quality analysis pipelines in Python and R, automate multi-sample workflows with Snakemake, and run jobs on HPC clusters.

₦40,000
≈ $48
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Structural Bioinformatics
Structural Bioinformatics
Course 07

Structural Bioinformatics

Predict protein structures. Dock drugs. Discover molecules.

From a protein sequence to a 3D drug-target complex — computationally. Use AlphaFold2 and AutoDock Vina to do in hours what crystallographers spent years on. This course bridges structural biology and drug discovery.

₦28,000
≈ $34
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Transcriptomics & Gene Expression Analysis
Transcriptomics & Gene Expression
Course 08

Transcriptomics & Gene Expression Analysis

Decode the transcriptome. Find what changes and why.

Master RNA-seq from raw reads to pathway biology. Run a real DESeq2 analysis, produce publication-quality volcano plots, and map differentially expressed genes onto biological pathways — all from a real published dataset.

₦32,000
≈ $38
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Proteomics & Protein Function Analysis
Proteomics & Protein Function
Course 09

Proteomics & Protein Function Analysis

From mass spec to molecular networks — identify every protein.

Proteomics is the missing piece of the transcriptomics story. This course teaches you to process quantitative proteomics data, annotate proteins with functional domains, and build interaction networks that reveal how proteins work together in disease.

₦25,000
≈ $30
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Drug Discovery & Precision Medicine
Drug Discovery & Precision Medicine
Course 10

Drug Discovery & Precision Medicine

Find the target. Screen the library. Personalise the treatment.

Apply bioinformatics to the drug discovery pipeline. Build QSAR models, run virtual screening campaigns, and analyse pharmacogenomics data from TCGA — skills that pharmaceutical companies are hiring for globally.

₦32,000
≈ $38
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Microbiome Research
Microbiome Research
Course 11

Microbiome Research

Explore the invisible world hiding in every sample.

The microbiome is one of the fastest-growing fields in biology. This course gives you hands-on proficiency with QIIME2 and Metaphlan4 — the tools used in landmark gut microbiome, soil ecology, and infectious disease studies worldwide.

₦25,000
≈ $30
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Machine Learning for Bioinformatics II
Machine Learning for Bioinformatics II
Course 12

Machine Learning for Bioinformatics II

Train models on genomes. Interpret them with biology.

Galaxy for workflows, scikit-learn for classical ML, TensorFlow for deep learning, SHAP for biological interpretation. Build models that classify cancer subtypes and predict splice sites from DNA sequences.

₦38,000
≈ $46
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Research Ethics & Scientific Writing
Research Ethics & Scientific Writing
Course 13

Research Ethics & Scientific Writing

The most important skills no one teaches you — until now.

Every scientist needs to write, and every scientist needs to be ethical. This course teaches both — following COPE guidelines, NIH data sharing standards, and the writing conventions of top journals like Nature Methods and Genome Biology.

₦18,000
≈ $22
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Instead of paying for each course individually — totalling over $200 — enrol in the full diploma and unlock everything for just $100. Live sessions, all materials, cohort network, and your diploma certificate included.

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Learning Outcomes

What you'll be capable of
after this diploma.

Eight measurable skills that will define your bioinformatics career from day one.

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Build NGS pipelines from scratch

Design and run FASTQ→VCF workflows using GATK, BWA, and SAMtools on real genomics data.

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Perform RNA-seq differential expression

Use DESeq2 and edgeR to identify and interpret differentially expressed genes with biological meaning.

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Predict and analyse protein structures

Use AlphaFold2, PyMOL, and molecular docking tools to study proteins at atomic resolution.

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Conduct GWAS & population genomics

Run genome-wide association studies and understand the statistical and biological significance of variants.

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Work confidently in Linux & Python

Navigate the command line, write bioinformatics scripts, and manage conda environments with fluency.

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Analyse single-cell RNA data

Process, cluster, and annotate single-cell transcriptomics datasets using Seurat and Scanpy.

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Build phylogenetic trees for publication

Construct maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic trees used in real research workflows.

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Navigate every major biological database

NCBI, UniProt, PDB, Ensembl — query effectively and interpret results with professional confidence.

Student Voices

Africa is building its
bioinformatics future.

★★★★★

"Before this diploma, bioinformatics felt like a foreign language. Dr. Ashraf has a rare gift for making complex pipelines feel intuitive. I ran my first GWAS in week four."

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Adaeze Okonkwo
MSc Student · University of Lagos, Nigeria
★★★★★

"The live cohort format is what makes this different. I now have colleagues in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa I regularly collaborate with. The network alone is worth the price."

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Kofi Mensah
Research Assistant · KNUST, Ghana
★★★★★

"I had tried other online bioinformatics courses and always dropped off. This cohort kept me accountable. The AlphaFold module blew my mind — I published a paper within three months."

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Fatima Ndiaye
PhD Researcher · University of Dakar, Senegal

Your bioinformatics
career starts here.

60 days. 13 courses. One cohort of peers who will push you forward. The African bioinformatics community is being built right now — and this diploma is your entry point.

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