Biology Courses and Certifications

Start with Khan Academy and OpenStax or LibreTexts for general biology, then work through MIT 7.01SC or 7.016 and a genetics course such as MIT 7.03, and add biochemistry. Practise with Scitable articles and public databases.

No single standard one exists. Credentials are mostly university degrees and courses, society training, laboratory safety training and entrance tests such as IIT JAM. Check each body's page for current details.

Learn biology basics, statistics and Python or R, then use ROSALIND, Galaxy training and EMBL-EBI online courses, and practise on NCBI, UniProt and Ensembl data. See the Bioinformatics page on this site.

NCBI, UniProt, the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Ensembl and the UCSC Genome Browser offer free access to biological data, with bioRxiv and PubMed for the literature.

This guide lists courses, books, databases, societies and exams for learning biology. The Bioinformatics and Biological Databases pages on this site cover tools and data sources in more depth.

Links were checked on 2 November 2026. Course catalogues and exam details change often, so confirm details on each provider's own page. Descriptions summarise each provider's pages and are not rankings. Sites that block automated checks, such as HHMI BioInteractive and the Indian Academy of Sciences, are kept and may need a manual click. The CSIR UGC NET site did not respond to automated checks, so confirm it manually.