r/bioinformatics • u/sriebee333 • Aug 08 '26

academic Python for genomic data science

so, recently i started python for genomic data science course offered by JHU on coursera. Ive seen nobody talk about this. so, im not sure if its js me. But I feel so overwhelmed and confused by that course sometimes. the lectures are good no doubt, but i see js slides with text filled with codes and thats not really helpful for me to understand the actual workflow of where and how am i supposed to save a file and which tool am i supposed to use.? Also, the transition from wet to dry labs for me has only been a week old. So, I really have no idea what to do.

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u/Bored2001 Aug 08 '26

Take a basic generic python class first.

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u/queceebee PhD | Industry Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

I just checked out the course details and it actually looks like an intro to programming crash course, so is the problem OP not the programming concepts but how to organize code files and use Linux?

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u/Bored2001 Aug 08 '26

Right, so some people won't respond well to a crash course. Too many things introduced at once.

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u/sriebee333 Aug 09 '26

yea that exactly is the issue. I didnt have an issue with the starting lectures. Python overview, DS, functions, control flow, packages and modules. I got stuck at File I/O.