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About the Course

Are you interested in learning how to program (in Python) within a scientific setting? This course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Python. It offers a gently-paced introduction to our Bioinformatics Specialization (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics), preparing learners to take the first course in the Specialization, "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/dna-analysis). Each of the four weeks in the course will consist of two required components. First, an interactive textbook provides Python programming challenges that arise from real biological problems. If you haven't programmed in Python before, not to worry! We provide "Just-in-Time" exercises from the Codecademy Python track (https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python). And each page in our interactive textbook has its own discussion forum, where you can interact with other learners. Second, each week will culminate in a summary quiz. Lecture videos are also provided that accompany the material, but these videos are optional....

Top reviews

IB

Aug 3, 2020

Although a very good course, material and interesting topic, it can be quite challenging for a beginner. Nevertheless very happy and satisfied to have done and completed it!

BD

Mar 5, 2022

very well explained, but needs prior knowledge on coding and bioinfomatics to understand easily. if you know some basics then its not too difficult to complete the course.

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By Carlos C

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Oct 6, 2024

Very interesting! How biology meets programming.

By Dr. R P P

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Oct 21, 2020

Very useful and well organized course structure.

By Daxin W

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May 6, 2020

Great course, I am no my way to bioinformatics!

By Feiyang M

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Nov 18, 2016

Good class, great for beginners to get started!

By Erik T

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Jul 9, 2016

It really has helped me programming on Python.

By Hunde T

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Jul 30, 2024

The best interactive course I have ever seen.

By Badr B J

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Nov 27, 2020

Challenging yet rewarding.

Fantastic course!

By Francisco F

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May 10, 2020

Great course! Will recommend to my students

By Zhi N

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Feb 8, 2017

True introduction to Bioinf.

It helps a lot.

By Gustavo M J

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Dec 24, 2016

Very helpful and well designed, thank you !

By Arpita P

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Aug 5, 2020

Very informative and helpful for beginners

By Alice T D

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Jan 25, 2021

excellent introduction to bioinformatics!

By Lawrence L

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Apr 27, 2019

Good Intro to Python for Bioinformatics.

By Iqra a

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Feb 2, 2025

Very informative and super interesting.

By Yasin K

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Aug 16, 2017

Great experience for bioinformatics

By Hleb P

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Jan 10, 2017

Good introduction to specialization

By Dudu G

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Jul 30, 2023

It was hard but very informative!

By Muhammad A I B

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Aug 6, 2017

Great Course.Learn a lot from it

By Vedant B

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Jun 29, 2025

Excellent course for beginners

By Jayakrishna V

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Sep 15, 2020

It was a Wonderful experience.

By Ashish S

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Jun 9, 2020

excellent course for beginners

By Gurnoor P

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Oct 10, 2021

i really enjoyed this course

By Dr. M S i

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Jun 23, 2024

it was a great course for me

By ROHINI.R

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Jun 12, 2022

This course was very useful

By Ana S V L

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Sep 20, 2020

El mejor curso para empezar!