por AS
•Aug 05, 2018
I would like to say thank you to all who have created this course and specialization! Good material, excellent lecturers!
por PO
•Aug 04, 2017
Good course and final capstone project. Would recommend anyone from beginner to professional.
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por Daniel Cheang
•Dec 23, 2018
This course takes considerably more time than the previous ones per week. There isn't a lot of teaching content because it's supposed to be simulating a real-life project. I personally am not interested in bioinfometrics and string assembly, so I don't feel very motivated.
I am happy that I have finished this course and I have learned a lot. I also honed my C++ skills through the many programming assignments; this is one of the reasons I decided to take this over other specializations.
The main reason for the 3 stars is that I could have spent the same amount time to learn more about algorithms, instead of thinking about problems I am not particularly interested. Also, there won't be help from the teachers, but the forum community is great.
por Zac Bolton
•Oct 04, 2018
Most challenging course I've taken on Coursera so far, so be prepared. However, I'm definitely a far better programmer due to it! <3 Thanks to the instructors for great material and well designed challenges.
por Joseph Gonzalez Nowak
•Sep 19, 2018
Nice exercises were difficult and interesting. You can learn a lot of in this course not only to solve bioinformatic problems
por Alexandr Semuka
•Aug 05, 2018
I would like to say thank you to all who have created this course and specialization! Good material, excellent lecturers!
por Henry Read
•Jul 28, 2018
Not bad, but you had better attend Bioinformatics Specialization so you could understand what tutors lecture.
por John Berkowitz
•Jun 15, 2018
There were countless errors in the descriptions of the programming problems, not just "ambiguities" or "open ended problem definitions" but quantitatively incorrect specific statements (length of inputs, structure of inputs, etc). Many of these issues have been pointed out in the forums, but remain uncorrected as of June 2018.
por Alexander Chertov
•Jun 08, 2018
I did not enjoy this course. I did not like the following things:1) It was advertizing a different course (Bioinformatics or something like that) too hard for my taste.2) The problem statements were often incorrect. In particular what is related to the size of inputs. I have wasted too much time because of these issues. For example, the problem statement says that there will be 400 lines of input. After wasting an hour and a half trying to find a cause of a segmentation error I am reading on the forum a message THAT IS ONE YEAR OLD saying that there are in fact 1618 lines of input.3) The final problem (genome assembler) has a very tight memory limit if you consider the size of the input. Solving it within the memory limit would require special skills that are not covered by the material in this course. Or maybe I (and other people on the forum) are just not smart enough.4) There are almost no lectures. All you have to work with seems to be a 60-page extract from a book.
por Pablo Esau Mejia Medina
•Jun 03, 2018
Greate course
por Fabrice Lacout
•Apr 28, 2018
A bit too challenging. A this point after 5 courses you just want to have a cool capstone and receive your certificate.
por Tamilarasu S
•Apr 25, 2018
Very good collection of problems for a finale.
Though you would not be assembling human genome, you will be exposed to the challenges faced during a real genome assembly of a bacterial genome.
A very theoretical specialization ending with practical problems.