Excelente!!!

Very well explained. I'm a molecular biologist seeking for some programming skills and understanding of the basics of the everydays tools. I've found some caveats in the coding problems from stepik but I understand that's difficult to give complete and exact explanations to everyone and every programming language that someone can use. Besides that everything's perfect! And recommended!

This course is really educational and well designed. The course content is well structured and clearly described. If you have no previous knowledge in this topic, I would recommend to start with the beginner's course "Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners" in order to be prepared for concepts like pseudocode or the computational way of thinking in general.

Definitely recommended!

It is a great course that helps me by first simplifying the problem to the level that it becomes ridiculous and then solve that problem, then try to approach a problem with real world constraints using that ridiculous problem. It is a course that introduced me to some of the amazing information and principles that runs this world.

What an interesting course! I learnt a lot about not only biology but also computer science. I were taught how to translate biological problems to computational problems.

This is a very good course for people who have a prior knowledge in biology and as well as know python programming and who are really interested in bioinformatics.

First of all, thank you to Pavel Pevzner and Phillip Compeau for providing this cheap and easy access to bioinformatics education. As someone with biochemistry background, I am using this course to learn coding for bioinformatic applications. The descriptions of molecular processes and genetics were well done but irrelevant to me, as I am already familiar. On the other hand, I felt that very little instruction was given about actual coding. I understand that this is because the course description claims it isn't primarily about coding, and that all coding assignments were optional. That being said, I think this class is completely pointless without coding, and its greatest flaw is that it attempts to appeal to a wider audience by pretending you can learn bioinformatics without learning coding. The fact that you can get a certificate without actually writing any code diminishes the value of the certificate. That little golden "Honors" band is the only distinction between people who actually learned bioinformatics and people who know how to click "next", and I don't think that distinction would be clear to any employers.

The course is lake of programming codes

too hard to understand, the lessons and tutorials do not lead to how to critical thinking or explain the step by step to figure out the problems.

The first quiz has 2 out of 5 questions that were not taught in the videos. Since there is no way to answer the questions, and therefore no way to pass the quiz, you can not move forward. This is the only course I had to drop.

This is very misleading and inapprpriate for non programmers. It should include step-by-step giudes to help understand how to solve problems instead of giving vaguue concepts.

Este curso y la especializacion en general, no esta enfocado a biologos, biotecnologos ni otras carreras de biologia y salud. Es una estafa, me arrepiento infinitamente.

as you proceed this becomes more difficult and unexplanatory

you need proper guidance and good hands on knowledge of coding before starting this course

This is NOT for begginers. I'm completly lost and wasting my time. I'm not able to get a refund nor to finish the course.

some technical problem, those explanation figure not working.

Muito difícil, não recomendo para iniciantes como eu.

I am unable to make progress due to old deadlines ...

Can't find answers for any quiz questions

too hard for understanding i want to quit

videos are not covering quizzes.

too many things do not work

The course was very well designed to engage any one with CS background to get highly motivated to learning Bioinformatics. Personally, I have found the humorous representations of the instructors very appealing and also enjoyed the programming challenges. Moreover, it helped me to develop an insight to connect my CS knowledge for solving Biological problems. I am looking forward to completing the full specialization.

Well made introduction into the field. Good programming exercises which are easy to medium difficulty with a computer science background. It feels like they put a lot of thought into the course structure. Some of the biological explanations are too brief without a biological background, and I would guess the same for students without a computer science background regarding the exercises.

This is an amazing course for me and a perfect choice at that. I am a pure biologist and the computer science aspect bit was indeed challenging being the first time of my doing such ever. I will be starting my PhD (topic - antibiotic resistance) in a few weeks that requires knowledge & skills in bioinformatics. I believe this course has sure prepared me for what is to come. Thank you!

This was fantastic course! I've never experienced such passion in an online course. I've learned so much, and I am striving for more... fortunately this is just the beginning. No wonder it has been proclaimed as one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. Not because it is popular you should take it, it has become popular because it is just marvellous.

Worth it!

Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Was a big help to have taken the intro class first. Instructors did a reasonable job of leading one through the material. Would have preferred more lecture, less reading, but not enough to knock a star off the rating. Material well organized. As some with an engineering background, the biology was mostly well explained.