The course was great. I would recommend it to anyone interested. There are a few things to fix, especially on the external toolkit.

Some of the Stepik material needs to be updated and put in more clear and simpler language. Otherwise, great learning curve!

The programming assignments could have been described more appropriately otherwise the course material was quite great.

I couldn't finish successfully last question but I don't know why. I believe I understand the meaning of the question

The answers are stale. MEME tool results don't match what they expect. It takes a while to find students to review.

Please do Biology meet Programmer before doing this course. A bit leap even for biologist with some coding skill

the course is great, extermely informative and educational, just takes a lot of time to grok all the information

Есть недоработки, но вместе с комментариями других учащихся, можно разобраться в сути заданий

Good course! However, some parts of the honors track were too challenging for a biologist.

Some parts are written in a way that is very hard to understand, but overall good course

NOT FOR BEGGINNERS!!!

Excellent material and teachers. I can't follow them

The two platform format is quite complex. But the material is excellent!

The course was very informative, but at points it was very confusing.

Very well explained for both biologists and computer scientists.

Best lecture to dive into Bioinformatics first time!

Not made for a biologist but for a programming man.

Good Course but at times difficult to understand.

it was an amazing course!!

The course is great!

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I liked this course more years ago, when I agreed without the possibility of having a certificate. Today I register it to have the certificate and I am surprised how much it has changed. Many videos were removed and you practically depend on reading the material on Stepik. Perhaps the biggest problem is the lack of clarity of the pseudocodes and the disaster of having to wait for someone to review your assignment to complete the course. It is unbelievable that in 2022 that will be a limitation to obtain the certificate.

To be completely honest, I was expecting more from this course. One big setback is that the course material does not really go into biochemical fundamentals of what is going on, and instead jumps straight into algorithms. This might work for someone with enough background in biology who needs to learn to code. I, on the other side, have already had some exposure to software development and algorithms, but when Pavel mentions gene expression and transcription I have a very vague idea what he is talking about.

The difficulty of this course is not at all beginners from a biologist's perspective. The difficulty of this course increases drastically from week 1 to week 2. I kindly suggest that the course coordinator to review the content as some students have pointed out that there are certain errors here and there in the stepik tool's content. Another point is that certain terminology presented in stepik are quite poorly explained.

Course was easy to follow and the explanations made sense from the instructors about half the time. The other half, the coding sections and pseudocode would be horribly confusing. The sections about random motif finding and gibbs sampling were particularly frustrating. I would say some coding experience is necessary to do well in this course in a reasonable timeframe.