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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners by University of California San Diego

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1,566 ratings

About the Course

Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting? This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Python. It offers a gently-paced introduction to our Bioinformatics Specialization (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics), preparing learners to take the first course in the Specialization, "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/dna-analysis). Each of the four weeks in the course will consist of two required components. First, an interactive textbook provides Python programming challenges that arise from real biological problems. If you haven't programmed in Python before, not to worry! We provide "Just-in-Time" exercises from the Codecademy Python track (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python). And each page in our interactive textbook has its own discussion forum, where you can interact with other learners. Second, each week will culminate in a summary quiz. Lecture videos are also provided that accompany the material, but these videos are optional....

Top reviews

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.

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By SUDARSHAN L

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Jul 29, 2021

It's really difficult for someone without any programming knowledge.

By 王兆愉

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Apr 13, 2021

Not recommended for real beginners who have no programming knowledge

By Abraham M E

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Jul 1, 2018

It is a little bit basic, but a great introduction to bioinformatics

By María A B

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Feb 17, 2019

I have learnt a lot, but sometimes I missed some help or feedback.

By Alan K

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Jul 10, 2024

needs thorough programming and python knowledge. else very tough

By Songji O

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Feb 13, 2024

Basic lectures necessary for cultivating biological thinking

By Chaoying M

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Sep 10, 2021

It's a good course, but of course not for 'real' beginners.

By Kirolos M

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May 31, 2020

Great for beginners ,yet with some to-be-cleared concepts

By marty

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Apr 27, 2020

A little difficult for beginners but definitely worthy!!

By David G

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Jul 18, 2019

Very interesting course. Thanks for putting it together.

By Jixiang P

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Sep 15, 2019

The course is too easy even as a beginning level course

By sabrina m

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May 18, 2022

le contenu est meilleur

difficulté plus qu'un débutant

By Yash G

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Jul 10, 2019

A lot to learn, but still not very east for sure

By Abderrazak I

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Dec 27, 2016

I really enjoyed this course, thanks to coursera

By Xue, L

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Oct 22, 2019

lecture video will be better than words

By Nitika B

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Jun 30, 2020

nice course but need litle more detail

By 高文强

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Aug 14, 2019

循循善诱，解释较为清楚，但感觉对于编程初学者并没有特别友好。

By Nanzhen Q

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Jun 9, 2022

too difficult for beginners

By Fikrat T

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Jan 1, 2017

The course was amazing!

By David H

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Oct 9, 2016

very challenging course

By Michelle B V

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Jul 27, 2019

It was a great course!

By Mario E S

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Jun 23, 2016

VERY GOOD. CONGRATS!

By AMRE A

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Nov 7, 2024

VERY GOOD

By Nabisubi P

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Oct 23, 2019

tasky

By Miles D R

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Jul 31, 2019

Fun!