2026 Contest Study Resources
In general, the resources listed here for the computational test will be somewhat helpful, but never as helpful as the materials covered in miRcore MVP meetings. We list most of the MVP meeting dates that cover each topic in hopes that you can refer to your notes/slides from those lectures.
These resources are not necessarily comprehensive. Self study through additional resources is encouraged.
Infectious Diseases, Antibiotic Resistance, Vaccines
Vaccine Types, Vaccine Ingredients, mRNA Vaccines
Prion Diseases
Herd Immunity
Infectious Diseases
Antibiotic Resistance
Immune System
Khan Academy, Innate Immunity
B cells
Immune System Components
Antibodies, specifically different types of antibodies
Statistics
Biostats video
Khan Academy Resources
olvtools
Genetics
NIH genetics resource
Khan Academy Resources, more
Libre Texts
Natural Selection
GEO2R
GEO2R About Page: Explanations on defining groups, volcano plots and boxplots, analyzing datasets with GEO2R
String-db
String About Page: Explanations on creating String maps, interpreting String maps and enrichment analysis (GO, KEGG), navigating the platform. Goes a bit too in-depth though, would not recommend spending much time studying this.
KEGG Pathways
KEGG About Page: Explanations on KEGG sidebar functions and includes a great diagram of KEGG map notations. Would definitely at least have a look at the map notations