Bioconductor for Genomic Data Science
Johns Hopkins University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Kasper Daniel Hansen, PhD
Data ScienceHealth
About the course
Learn to use tools from the Bioconductor project to perform analysis of genomic data. This is the fifth course in the Genomic Big Data Specialization from Johns Hopkins University.
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (34 votes, 1.0★).
“6) Quiz questions required methods and logical constructs that were not explained/used/mentioned in the lectures. One quiz lacked background information of what data needed to be used (the info was available in the previous version of the course). Some quiz questions were biologically inaccurate i.e. confusing genes/transcripts/exons.”
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