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The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

Learn advanced approaches to genomic visualization, reproducible analysis, data architecture, and exploration of cloud-scale consortium-generated genomic data.

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

Join Harvard faculty in this online course to discover the physical history of the Jewish bible.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.