Great course! The only change i would ask for: after the test, could you let us see the correct response to the questions we got wrong? Thanks!

O curso é muito complicado para quem não conhecimento em modelos estáticos específicos.

Mas é muito interessante e muito abrangente.

The content of this course is quiet good, but is little bit hard to digest. Overall, I gained a lot of things from this course.

Excellent course, could be improved by explaining the more difficult concepts in greater depth, e.g. ODE and PDE math.

Great new area to explore and study, however some subjects were not explained adequately.

Very very informative course for the beginners like me!

Good lecture, but not systematic curriculum

Instructor is very hard to engage with.

a bit to hard for an introduction cours

Excellent course work!

A very useful course!

useful

I have mixed feelings about the course.

In general I greatly appreciate the attempt of organizing a curse on such a complex, highly interdisciplinary, extensive and relatively recent (which implies that not all concepts are yet well defined) field as systems biology is. However, as others have mentioned, it was done in a very poorly way.

My background is in physics and mathematics and over the past 3 years I've been working in computational biology. I've learned a lot about the topics involved in the projects I've worked on, but I was missing an overall, encompassing perspective. This course greatly helped with that. It helped me to order things in my head and to understand 'where' the knowledge I have 'sits' in the scope of systems biology. I also liked the clearly, carefully selected papers and the historical perspective Prof. Iyengar provides on them and on the field.

However, I would not recommend this to a new comer. The only reason I got these things out of it is because of my previous experience, I more or less knew what they were talking about or where to find further info. The presentation of the topics is rather messy and it seems to be assumed that you are familiar with the jargon and technicisms of molecular biology and mathematics, which is adequate for a seminar but horrible as introductory material. The exercises often implement different terminology and conventions and sometimes they involved topics that weren't covered in the lectures nor reading recommendations. Homework and tests are supposed to be challenging, but I expect them to be so (perhaps, a habit from math and physics that doesn't translate to biology) because I need to find a way to combine the concepts I know from class and not because I'm missing half of the information.

With a biology background I had some difficulty following this course. That is understandable, as a lot of it relies in mathematical modelling and statistics. I still felt like some exam questions relied on material not yet lectured, which would sometimes leave me at a loss as to how I should have gotten to the right question in the first place. The lectures could have been structured differently, so as to facilitate engagement - I found myself easily losing focus and having to repeat the videos. Despite its shortcomings, the course is still a powerful introduction to Systems Biology.

I have to thank for this virtual course, however although this course is '' introduction '' it supposes that the participants have advanced concepts that are not explained, in many moments the literature is inconclusive, there is no literature that allows a basic revision on the topics that we are learning; The evlauacion is not according to what has been learned and in many cases it is based more on the memory than on the analysis.

some subjects are mentioned without enough explanation. It seems that the goal is to understand the big picture but sometimes hard to follow without understand the micro details.

Good overview of systems biology, but the graded tests are somewhat difficult to understand for someone without a biology background such as myself.

Really interesting content, but could use a rework on formatting, style, and clarity.

Could give more basic information about systems theory

The lectures were somehow chaotic.

Tough and brain storming

While the course did present a few topics that may be of concern to a systems biologist, I'm very disappointed with the effort that went into presenting the material in a digestible, coherent way. After completing the course, rather than feeling like I just took an engaging course online, I feel a bit like someone had the radio tuned to a Systems Biology station in the other room while I did chores. The big issues are (1) The course is years old and hasn't been updated for this fast-moving field, (2) The lectures style is scattered, (3) The review material doesn't connect strongly to the lecture material, and (4) The video production is pretty low-effort.

The explanations in the course are extremely superficial and do not add anything to the PowerPoint presented in each course. In addition, most of the articles presented in the lectures are hardly discussed which makes it difficult to understand for a beginner in this field.

Course material was not presented in a matter that flowed naturally. Completing the course didn't lend greatly to my overall understanding in the area though I understand certain aspects very well.

I found that the lectures didn't guide me enough. I download the articles and read extra material. I will look for another course to learn more of this part of the specialization.