HD
Apr 17, 2016
I give this course 5 star because I did Bioinformatics I and I totally enjoy it.
This is where programming can be fun, and practical, and you'll learn some basic biology too.
What's not to love?
HL
Aug 15, 2017
I learned a lot from this difficult and time-consuming course! It covers biological concepts using Python. It made learning Python more interesting for me, since I have always loved biology.
By Madhavi P
•May 3, 2017
Excellent course!!!
By JOSE C D S F
•Apr 11, 2017
It's amazing course
By Ashitha K S
•May 6, 2020
Awesome course ..
By Amy
•Nov 1, 2017
very useful class!
By Sophiezz
•Jul 12, 2021
Excellent course!
By Dhiraj S
•Jun 11, 2020
It was excellent
By Achala S K
•Feb 8, 2019
it was enjoyable
By 马少华
•Jul 2, 2023
perfect course
By 稀饭煮天下
•Sep 16, 2023
Good course!!
By Igor O
•Dec 29, 2018
Great course.
By David T
•Mar 5, 2018
So remarkable
By Yan T H
•Jun 10, 2017
Nice course
By ShaikJasmine
•Jan 31, 2022
thank you
By yeet
•Mar 29, 2016
Awesome!
By Dao M C
•Oct 24, 2022
Great!
By Rohak S
•May 12, 2021
Amaz0ng
By Prathipati P
•Sep 26, 2020
Awesome
By Ibrahim H E E
•Mar 11, 2021
nicee
By Shunkai X
•Dec 12, 2016
Funny
By Roberto R
•Oct 20, 2016
cool
By DNA-AND-NAD
•Jul 9, 2016
很好
By Markella M
•Jul 19, 2019
When it comes to the subject and the learning outcomes, I would rate 5/5. However the methods and the exercises would rate quite lower. Often it's really hard to understand what is wrong with your submissions and the hints given are minimal, so it's not uncommon to be stuck in an exercise for hours not knowing what you're doing wrong. It might be an entry level course but the material is quite demanding if you don't have a programming background. It was the second time I attempted it, the first one was a couple of years ago and I gave up after the first week. This is why I would say that the time required for the completion of this course is wildly understated. Other than that, as a biology graduate I found the skills learned during this course precious. I got hold of some basic Python commands, learned how to implement them to answer questions of biological nature and started thinking a little bit like a programmer. If you have the time and the patience, I would recommend this course.
By Filipe M d M
•Dec 30, 2019
It's a great course, but as some people pointed out, it's not the most friendly towards beginners. Ate the end of the fourth week the course tells how to install python and to download pycharm. In my opinion these should have been done on the first week. A good tool for code editing make things so much easier that the student can focus more on the code and on the subject matter than trying to find where the got their code wrong. I read a lot of comments in the comment section of people not knowing what they got wrong only to find out that a piece of code was wrongly indented or that they were missing a colon.
Nevertheless, this couser taught me a lot of interesting stuffs. The way we slowly build our methods, solving problems in small steps, and actualy being able to see it being applied to real Dna string like the E_coli genome and the DosR. I thorougly enjoyed this course i'll certainly be back for the specialized ones.
By Ellen G
•Aug 1, 2017
This was an extremely challenging and time-consuming course for me, a non-programmer, non-biologist health care IT professional. My only negative criticism is that for absolute beginners, the estimated time for most exercises is very very very low. Exercises that were estimated at 39 minutes sometimes took me 8 hours of actual labor.
However! Our course instructor, Niema Moshiri was wonderful - very responsive, very patient, and excellent at coaching students without giving away the answers. I learned to read the assignment, then go directly to the comments, reading all of them, and taking especial note of the "instructor replied" answers. I had a good correspondence with a learner for a while - really helped morale and let me feel connected to the community.
And wow! did I learn a lot about the necessity for computational techniques in bioinformatics, and loads about Python programming!
By nikhil k
•Jul 17, 2017
Finally at the end of completing a really tough course.. especially for a non programmer and non statistician .But the point is if i can do so can you..!! At times the course really gets tough and at certain times you can breeze through .! it takes tremendous time and patience to get through it.. The staff especially Mr Neima Moshiri is really helpful. My suggestion for those who want to get through with the course should atleast have some knowledge of python and statistics . Data structures and algorithms.. i had to find my way around quite a lot..!! Just a note while trying to learn python i finished completing codeacademy and sololearn python certification just to finish this course...and stiff feel like a noob in python.. !!!