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 emerged pathogen.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
5 hours to complete
The 2011 European E. coli Outbreak
5 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 11 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz
4 hours to complete
Assembling Genomes Using de Bruijn Graphs
4 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 24 min)
8 hours to complete
Genome Assembly Faces Real Sequencing Data
8 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 11 min)
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- 5 stars69.55%
- 4 stars16.98%
- 3 stars8.97%
- 2 stars2.88%
- 1 star1.60%
TOP REVIEWS FROM GENOME ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE
by FSSep 5, 2020
It's a great experience with learning a Genome Assembly.
by POAug 3, 2017
Good course and final capstone project. Would recommend anyone from beginner to professional.
by PBJul 27, 2019
May be the course would have given more hints. But a learned a lot from the projects.
by AGJul 28, 2020
very challenging course, but still very good and you learn a lot
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