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

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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 ch...
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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?

MZ

Apr 14, 2020

A very good course for those who has some (at least a little) experience in programmimg! I really loved it, it was challenging sometimes, especially in the end, but I did it and learned a lot.

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By Carlos C

Oct 6, 2024

Very interesting! How biology meets programming.

By Dr. R P P

Oct 21, 2020

Very useful and well organized course structure.

By Daxin W

May 6, 2020

Great course, I am no my way to bioinformatics!

By Feiyang M

Nov 18, 2016

Good class, great for beginners to get started!

By Erik T

Jul 9, 2016

It really has helped me programming on Python.

By Hunde T

Jul 30, 2024

The best interactive course I have ever seen.

By Badr B J

Nov 27, 2020

Challenging yet rewarding.

Fantastic course!

By Francisco F

May 10, 2020

Great course! Will recommend to my students

By Zhi N

Feb 8, 2017

True introduction to Bioinf.

It helps a lot.

By Gustavo M J

Dec 24, 2016

Very helpful and well designed, thank you !

By Arpita P

Aug 5, 2020

Very informative and helpful for beginners

By Alice T D

Jan 25, 2021

excellent introduction to bioinformatics!

By Lawrence L

Apr 27, 2019

Good Intro to Python for Bioinformatics.

By Iqra a

Feb 2, 2025

Very informative and super interesting.

By Yasin K

Aug 16, 2017

Great experience for bioinformatics

By Hleb P

Jan 10, 2017

Good introduction to specialization

By Dudu G

Jul 30, 2023

It was hard but very informative!

By Muhammad A I B

Aug 6, 2017

Great Course.Learn a lot from it

By Vedant B

Jun 29, 2025

Excellent course for beginners

By Jayakrishna V

Sep 15, 2020

It was a Wonderful experience.

By Ashish S

Jun 9, 2020

excellent course for beginners

By Gurnoor P

Oct 10, 2021

i really enjoyed this course

By Dr. M S i

Jun 23, 2024

it was a great course for me

By ROHINI.R

Jun 12, 2022

This course was very useful

By Ana S V L

Sep 20, 2020

El mejor curso para empezar!