Good course in introducing main concepts of specialization.

Good beginner course to introduce genomics

great

The information is good, but they really don't highlight what they think will be important to remember in general, or specifically for the quiz. In particular, there are a couple of videos that say something like "you don't have to memorize this", but then it shows up as a question on the quiz. If you didn't memorize it, you may have issues.

I am a PhD student in genetics, so the background material there was review from undergrad courses. Obviously some people who are not biologists will need this background. I do wish, however, that the statistics intro was more applied and covered a better intro and application to the why!

too easy, some part of statistic not very clear, but maybe becouse this is a beginner course, I will do rest of the course.

Pretty basic introduction. Not bad, not outstanding, just average: 3 stars.

The stats section in week 4 sucked. The rest was spot on.

Basic course

I didn't like much this course because teacher speaks so fast (I always had to stop and watch again) and classes are so long. I'm not a native english speaker and, beyond his high speech speed, I had difficulties to understand him sometimes because some of his sentences are truncated (he starts to say something in a sentence and he changes it by the way, turning it into a difficult sentence to foreign people understand).

This course if just a quick fly-by overview. You don't learn anything relevant in biologiy, computer science or statistics. Some questions in the quiz were not part of the course which is really annoying. Anyhow, I like the idea of reading a paper as an academic part of this course.

statistics part was dissapointing and underexplained. Course project is also very uninteresting.

Would've liked more technical information. more basic than I was expecting

It is average, not cover anything important

While the course provides a broad overview of genomic technologies, I found it quite outdated in terms of teaching style. The presentation felt messy and lacked a clear structure, making it difficult to follow. The slides and explanations could be better organised, and communication could be improved for clarity. It was hard to follow and actually understand what you were trying to explain. I stopped after the second Python class because I was confused. Instead, I watched Programming with Mosh on YouTube—his 6-hour class was smooth, easy to follow, and very clear, without unnecessary facts. I highly recommend checking out his teaching style for inspiration! Additionally, the course lacks hands-on practice or exercises to reinforce learning. Having interactive tasks or real-world applications would help deepen understanding and engagement. Overall, I think the course needs an update to improve both content delivery and the learning experience.

This part is a complete waste of time. IF you are going to mention the biological bases for genomics then you should do it properly, none of the important biological bases are address. If the idea is not to go deep into biology then erase the whole course because this way it really doesn't help.

The history part is way too long, I really don't care about that, I care about the current trend.

A whole module to say that statistics in science is important, really?, we all know that. Maybe it would be helpful to refresh the most important concepts that are used in genomics analysis would be helpful.

Really disappointing

there is some bug in the week 4 quiz i have tried for more than 20 times but it always gets stuck at 60% please go through it once... I have completed everything expect that i feel very bad not getting the certificate because of some bug/technical problems. i put so much efforts to complete this course but could not get the outcomes as expected.

The material are outdated, the approach is top-down, the amount of content is overwhelming, provided mainly in lecture form, with too few exercises and opportunities to practice and test one's understanding. This was fairly disappointing.

-poor material, no usage of assistant technologies

-hasty teacher

-bad exams, exams very playing with the wording and not with the understanding

Complete waste of time

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I am a man of 58 years old and having an experience of almost 30 years of Business Management of Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical Industries of Pakistan. Presently I am having my own Consulting Company " AIMMS CONSULTING" and extending my services as Management Consultant to different companies of said sectors.

I am of the conviction that learning is never ending and have a habit of learning new ideas about my favorite subject about Data Science. Although I have the limited usage of this subject in my working areas but I love to know about new areas of different specialties.

I really appreciate highly the efforts of Prof Steven Salzberg, PhD & Sssociate Prof Jeff Leek, PhD and enjoyed the course material and videos presentation of this course. Mind blowing approach was adopted especially in the conceptual background with extremely useful Bioinformatics, Computational and statistics in the course of Introduction to Genomic Technologies.

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This course was a very helpful introduction to the field, and mostly enjoyable to take. I appreciate that Professor Salzberg eased in the biological component in such a way that a lay person would come away with a routine knowledge of DNA replication. The cursory explanations of algorithms and software design I found engaging, as he does a great job translating the logic of something that seems conceptually out of reach to most people, to something anyone can make sense of. The statistical component was the most challenging, and I personally would have preferred some refresher on the mathematical side of things. Professor Leek's lectures were excellent, replete with examples translated to everyday life, so if you pay attention, everything would make sense to literally anybody. This course made accessible to me a field I've always wanted to pursue but felt beyond my reach. I look forward to the next course in this series.

I highly recommend this course for everybody who has literally no biological background and would like to learn something about Molecular Biology and Genomics.

I have tried to learn a little bit by myself a few times in my life but for every try I ended up with some endless clicking at next and next definition from wikipedia, not knowing what is crucial and what I can skip to get a general idea about the subject. Everything but not a successful way of learning. Here, they give you the essence in an understandable way, together with some of these "interesting funny facts" from the field that, added to a lecture, make you more willing to stay focused.

This course have helped me get ready for the next step in my career. It has helped me understand what is going on in the laboratory that I am working at. It is a good course for me because we are planning to put up a molecular biology laboratory in my Department. It has helped me conceptualize what are the things that we will need. The course made it easier to understand with the visual presentations even though I am not familiar with bioinformatics. Ideally we will be doing sequencing as well on our research and it is a good thing that the course introduced new technologies as well that are cheaper and more efficient options. ThankshnThankThank

This course introduces you to modern genomic technologies, some statistics and the importance of computational biology. I think anyone taking the course could understand how understanding the basics of statistics, genetics, molecular biology and even some programming could help them if they are serious about Genomic Data Science. But that's it. You could become confused and overwhelmed if you have no real understanding of any of these subjects. The fact that this is just an introduction to the 8 part specialization would escape your mind if you feel overwhelmed.