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About the Course

In Spring 2011, thousands of people in Germany were hospitalized with a deadly disease that started as food poisoning with bloody diarrhea
and often led to kidney failure. It was the beginning of the deadliest outbreak in recent history, caused by a mysterious bacterial strain that we
will refer to as E. coli X. Soon, German officials linked the outbreak to a restaurant in Lübeck, where nearly 20% of the patrons had developed
bloody diarrhea in a single week. At this point, biologists knew that they were facing a previously unknown pathogen and that traditional
methods would not suffice – computational biologists would be needed to assemble and analyze the genome of the newly em...
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Top reviews

SH

Oct 20, 2020

Really enjoyable and also challenging specialization. I also enjoyed this capstone too. I gathered my interest in Algorithms and Bioinformatics field.

AS

Aug 4, 2018

I would like to say thank you to all who have created this course and specialization! Good material, excellent lecturers!

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26 - 50 of 61 Reviews for Genome Assembly Programming Challenge

By Tianyu W

Sep 20, 2017

very practical specialization, though some programming assignments are really hard to solve.

By Priyansh B

Jul 28, 2019

May be the course would have given more hints. But a learned a lot from the projects.

By Pradyumn A

Jul 14, 2017

Really tough and enjoyable Project. Learnt something very special.

By Andres F O G

Jul 28, 2020

very challenging course, but still very good and you learn a lot

By felipe a

Jul 3, 2021

A great challenge, it requires a lot of effort and research.

By Fahmim M S

Sep 6, 2020

It's a great experience with learning a Genome Assembly.

By Enrique A

Oct 27, 2020

Mil gracias maestro Alexander, Mil gracias Coursera.

By Edgar H F

Mar 12, 2021

It was great! Really tough, but rewarding.

By Manikant R

Jun 5, 2020

Great course, hard but it is worth.

By A.Bashar E

Jan 17, 2018

This is how algorithms should be.

By Shehab E E

Aug 13, 2020

Very Challenging Course

By Shivendra S

Jul 11, 2022

it was so good

By Pablo E M M

Jun 3, 2018

Greate course

By MACHANI S K

Nov 26, 2020

good course

By Dil M

Sep 6, 2020

good course

By 陆瀚哲

Sep 13, 2021

Very good!

By MANCHALA L

Aug 20, 2020

Excellent.

By Muhammad A F B

Dec 11, 2020

Thank YOu

By Deleted A

Sep 25, 2024

great

By Baizak B N

Nov 29, 2022

good

By VEERAMALLU V S S K

Nov 19, 2020

good

By Сапарали М Ө

Nov 27, 2022

100

By SeyedAli A

Aug 11, 2020

hi, this is a hard course and the videos are not sufficient. but finally i finished.

thanks a lot

By Nikhil K

Apr 10, 2020

It is a challenging course, which makes it great.

By Alexander M

Oct 18, 2017

Very complicated tasks; Too much bioinformations