AH
29 nov. 2020
Amazing course, only the final exam was rather an excercise in finding out out where the answers differ than trying to really understand what should be the ringht answer. I learnt a lot, thank you!
KK
20 juin 2021
The lab videos are great, thanks for teaching us. Not all university can afford those machines. If you have latest methods or anything please introduce more courses.
par Paul G
•31 mars 2020
Whilst a significant improvement on the dreadful first course in the specialisation, I found this course frustrating and poor in several key areas. Firstly, I am a Biomedical Informatician with several years hands-on experience and am looking to build up my skills in Systems Biology, and I hoped this specialisation would help with that. Based on the first two courses, it doesn't - at all.
Firstly, whilst the lecture videos are much better than in the first course, it really adds little to investigate lab procedures in such detail. An overview of how they work and a focus *on the data produced* and to how that are relevant to models based upon differential equations would have been excellent: this only happens in the final week! The instructor has never posted once in the discussion forums since the course began and there are issues reported with the quizzes which appear to not have been rectified - so the quality control is poor and I found for me personally, much of the material was irrelevant to my aims and objectives in taking the course.
Coursera really have missed an opportunity with this specialisation: the MIT Synthetic Biology course offered by edX is excellent, even though it requires a very high degree of background knowledge it doesn't shy away from the materials (it required too much Molecular Biology for me though it's an excellent course). "Experimental Methods in Systems Biology" *could* have been excellent - IF the material of the final week of lectures had been the majority of the coure. Very disappointing and, honestly, a waste of money in my honest opinion.
par Esteban C
•8 mai 2020
Un excelente curso que da un panorama muy útil de las herramientas comúnmente empleadas para experimentos enfocados a la biología de sistemas
par Felix E R P
•3 juin 2016
Excellent course with a wealth of information about system biology technologies
par Eduardo R M
•4 déc. 2015
Great course,
Recommended if you are interest in new technologies
par Sheetal J
•22 sept. 2019
Loved this course. Prof. Birtwistle is really into teaching and liked the way he has organized this course. Thanks!
par Guolong M
•3 janv. 2021
3stars for the lab video, -1 for quizzes, -1 for the long lectures
This course has the best lab videos to offer. I have real experience for most of these techniques so I should be qualified to say that the course is extremely helpful to those who will touch on these stuffs. The concepts and the principles of techniques are covered comprehensively but could have been more concise; the lectures are generally too long. The major downside, as others have pointed out, is that the quizzes are not well-organized. There are too many confusing multiple choice problems; the tester clearly did not know the choice should be independent. I've passed this course with 100% grades (with a lot of attempts and trying) Some answers are clearly incorrect if you lookup the literature; the tester should consider some techniques would be improved overtime and therefore some limitation will be lifted, but this course will stay on coursera forever). Furthermore, some problems are not covered or not emphasized in the lectures.
par Himanshu G
•21 févr. 2019
A good course for someone interested to work in the field of systems biology, and thanks to Icahn School of Medicine and Coursera for the same.
But the course could have been a bit more comprehensive with respect to cellular experiments and include coverage of experiments done outside the Mount Sinai lab as well, especially 'non-omic' experiments such as cell growth and viability assays or KD , KO or Over-Expression studies that can be really useful for building network models.
par Joyce C M A
•12 mai 2019
This course is definitely not for beginners and students must have previous lab experience (in my opinion). It is a great course to get your feet wet in new techniques that you have not performed yet.
par Harshit K S
•4 mai 2020
A really nice course which I believe served its purpose. Maybe a pdf version of experimental protocols followed in the lab videos can be added in the reading section of the lab-based video or in optional reading. This will help students who are interested in knowing the specific protocols for the technique.
par Adam H
•29 nov. 2020
Amazing course, only the final exam was rather an excercise in finding out out where the answers differ than trying to really understand what should be the ringht answer. I learnt a lot, thank you!
par julio c r m
•7 août 2016
This a great course it helps a lot to get to know state of the art techniques and how to use them properly although the assigment questions of selecting the statements are quite confusing.
par Yuridia M
•8 juin 2020
Excelente curso, en lo personal me dio más perspectivas para el trabajo con sistemas biológicos. Me gustaría que se profundizara más sobre el tema de redes metabólicas y análisis de datos.
par Mimi D
•21 juin 2021
The lab videos are great, thanks for teaching us. Not all university can afford those machines. If you have latest methods or anything please introduce more courses.
par Luna Z
•9 janv. 2021
Very difficult, would help if instructor provides answer key or monitors the chat a bit more
par Mark E S
•30 sept. 2020
Awesome delivery and exam questions are very practical....I enjoyed the 8weeks here
par Vitória S B
•10 juil. 2020
I relly enjoy and learn so much with that course! I recommend :)
par Cristina B
•24 mai 2020
excellent overview of experimental methods in systems biology
par Jiho C
•9 mars 2017
Good lecture to know experimental method in lab
par ISHITA C
•5 juin 2022
It was quite knowledgeble
par Boudalia M E A
•15 janv. 2016
excellent!!!!
tanks...
par Yingchao M
•20 avr. 2020
A very good course.
par Mac D G
•24 janv. 2018
it was so useful
par Dominika B
•28 sept. 2016
Very useful. :)
par farzaneh d d
•6 sept. 2016
its very good.
par Nurşen Ç
•10 juin 2019
ain't better!