Jul 30, 2018
This course is very very good. Challenging at times. It does not hold your hand at all times and sometimes requires research to solve some of the problems, but I like the community and the approach.
Sep 11, 2019
The material of the course is simply exquisitely presented. The concepts are clear, easy to grasp. You won't be a bioinformatician after doing this course, but you'll make the first step.
创建者 Saif-AlDin
•Aug 03, 2018
I have received financial aid because I was interested in the bioinformatics field and was reading alot about it and wanted to start my first course, it was my biggest mistake that I have chosen this course. It is awfully explained, terrible accent, basically a course with 50% information for beginners and 50% for coders and the quiz for week 2 just pumped my blood pressure to the roof, this course is in no way to be called for beginners and the interactive text is a mess and it is no way as a biotechnologist that I am going to recommend this course to anyone !, I need to apologize for coursera company for giving me aid for this COURSE !
note : this course is basically like a money grab, it is not enough that you are on their course they actually from Minute one advertise for their book vol 1 and 2... such a joke.
All in all I am stopping this course because the knowledge I am gaining from this course is 1 on the scale of 10, and the amount of confusion and frustration and disappointment I am getting is 10 on the scale of 10 !!
I really hope coursera can forgive my dropping out of this course and allows me to get a financial aid at an actual course
创建者 Laura L
•Nov 13, 2017
Very tough but rewarding class. The programming part was easy, the algorithms kicked my butt. Love the challenge and can't wait to take the rest!!! Such an interesting field!
创建者 Melinda B
•Apr 30, 2019
This course is really frustrating if you are not a computer scientist.
The 'language-neutral pseudocode' given on the computer science tasks is buggy and hard to figure out and there is no support or solutions. This course is just hours spent rerunning your code by brute force to pray you get to their answer to pass.
Work is not explained well. The only reason to take this course is that its supported by UCSD.
创建者 Gener A R
•Apr 08, 2019
Good course, very solid community.
创建者 Juris L
•Jul 30, 2018
This course is very very good. Challenging at times. It does not hold your hand at all times and sometimes requires research to solve some of the problems, but I like the community and the approach.
创建者 Federico R
•Sep 28, 2016
Excelente!!!
Very well explained. I'm a molecular biologist seeking for some programming skills and understanding of the basics of the everydays tools. I've found some caveats in the coding problems from stepik but I understand that's difficult to give complete and exact explanations to everyone and every programming language that someone can use. Besides that everything's perfect! And recommended!
创建者 Ahmad A
•Dec 31, 2018
One of the best courser, I took ever!
创建者 Greta G H
•Jan 11, 2019
Great!
创建者 Mousa J A
•Feb 12, 2019
A really nice course that links biology and programming
创建者 Fabio J F
•Feb 17, 2019
Some activities were unnecessary but coding up the algorithms was a treat :)
创建者 Victor C
•Mar 03, 2019
Loving it so far.
创建者 Oscar J O R
•Aug 14, 2018
Really nice and clear course. The hands-on learning is fundamental to create a smooth transition between algorithms and biology.
创建者 Julian A S
•Oct 16, 2018
Clear and well-formatted. No instructional support in the forums was disappointing, though.
创建者 Shengbo W
•Sep 10, 2018
It is really helpful!
创建者 Olaf W
•Oct 02, 2018
Great content, very well structured. Loved the interactive text with the graded coding exercises.
创建者 Víctor G J
•Jun 15, 2017
I've had lots of fun and I've learnt some of the foundations of Bioinformatics. I couldn't expect more.
创建者 Shweta C
•Aug 04, 2017
Great Course !!
创建者 Muhammad K T
•Jun 15, 2017
Very Informative...
创建者 Dr S C
•Jun 29, 2018
A great introduction to this topic. I really felt I came away from this course with some useful skills.
创建者 Jussi R
•Sep 18, 2017
Cool stuff, I didn't even realize how close we are computational linguistics.
创建者 Adrien L
•Jun 26, 2016
Excellent teachers, excellent assignments. My favorite MOOC so far, congrats!
创建者 Nicolas S V
•Mar 24, 2018
Insightful and introductory course to the bioinformatics world.
创建者 Karen G
•Feb 09, 2017
great introduction!
创建者 Marek B
•Sep 17, 2017
This course was fun and very rewarding, I feel like I learned a lot about both algorithms and biology.
I have completed the Honors track---coming from a computer science background the algorithmic parts were mostly easy for me (I generally came up with all the algorithms on my own) but still fun to work through, especially because of their connection to real-world biology problems.
Interesting as the biological motivations had been they really only scratched the surface and made me want to learn more. For that I worked through the online MIT biology course [1] led by Eric Lander (of the Human Genome Project fame) that I cannot recommend enough.
[1] https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+7.00x+2T2017/course/
创建者 Darius F
•Feb 04, 2018
Well made introduction into the field. Good programming exercises which are easy to medium difficulty with a computer science background. It feels like they put a lot of thought into the course structure. Some of the biological explanations are too brief without a biological background, and I would guess the same for students without a computer science background regarding the exercises.