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Systems Biology Specialization
Coursera
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2022 · score 0.7
A Coursera specialization of courses introducing systems biology, the study of how biological components interact as networks and models. It is taught from a university provider (Rennes I, per one commenter) and is described as demanding and focused on core concepts rather than current research.
One commenter who took it over several years says the Coursera courses were of much higher quality than what they got from a local university, though it is mostly conceptual and historical rather than state of the art.
Science & Engineeringintermediatepaidinteractive MOOC#systems biology#biology#modeling#coursera#genetics
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It took me one year to go through the specialization on system biology at Coursera. In overall I estimate it took 3 years of online courses. The Edx course (intro to...) is very interesting and demanding but it is mostly about core concepts and historical aspects. As ArtWomb said you will not learn state of art information in this course.
Why not, but it depends on what you already know, the time you have, etc...I was used to R&D methods and culture beforehand because of my job.
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/systems-biology
I didn't get a job, first because I am old, retired and also because I do not expect to find a so interesting job in a small university in France. A laboratory in a large company would fit my tastes better. The reasons are:
I think what matters is not only the ability to do interesting stuff, you can do as much interesting studies from your armchair than in a university because you can access public and not so public databases and there is an incredible amount of software available for free and people willing to help.
A real glass ceiling is that you must belong to a good team to be recognized for your work:
Scientists do not read single author papers.
The field is filled with in an incredible amount of low quality publications.
For example in my chosen field (ALS research) there is an important work published roughly every two years, yet every week people are claiming to make breakthrough and every year 15,000 papers are published.
Even among recognized scientists there are schools of thought that are incompatible, with contradictory findings never discussed or even addressed. For example nobody agrees on what is causing Alzheimer, Parkinson, ALS, MS, etc...
Important symptoms like muscle wasting are not investigated by muscle scientists who prefer studying neurons.
Even weirder: In brain, glial cells largely outnumbers (10/1) neurons, yet few publications mention them.
It's hard to make a contribution, so I prefer to discuss articles that I find interesting, in the hope to improve a bit the signal/noise ratio.