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Yes, You Really Have to Study; No, You Don't Have to Get Out of Your Jammies

Dec 24, 2008

Here's a good excuse to brush up on your bioinformatics skills while lounging at home in your PJs: The University of Manchester will be hosting distance learning classes in bioinformatics this coming March, and applications are now being accepted. Courses include Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, Introduction to Microarray Data Analysis, The Science of Proteomics, and many more.

 

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