This course is not precisely bad, but its very lacking compared to the other courses in the specialization. Here are my complaints:-Much of the more interesting bits say check out this other course in bioinformatics for details. Of course, if you arent registered for that other course, you dont have access to those materials.-Not a lot of thought went into the homeworks. All of them are implement this. Here is some pseudocode, with no think about a problem that can be solved with the same ideas, like the other courses in the specialization (which are, in my opinion, much better).-We saw 4 algorithms for string matching (KMP, Rabin-Karp, suffix array matching, Burrow-Wheelers transform), but virtually no discussion on when to use each one, strengths and weaknesses, and so on. Also, no Boyer-Moore?-After passing all test cases for a homework, we should be able to download a solution with the correct implementation, in order to improve our own.
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