ADS1: Practical: Downloading and reading a genome

In this practical session with Jacob Pritt, we discuss the FASTA format, which is a typical file format for storing reference genomes. Course page: www.coursera.o....

[@fongluu]

@1:16 I tried so many times to upload this into Coursera Jupyter/Python notebook and every time it spits back errors "...unable to establish SSL" ! Is there an easier way??? I tried to finish the "Programming Homework1" and yet it's just impossilbe! Some one out there can help ? Please? thanks!

[@macielrodriguez6697]

Thank you so much! I just finished my python course and was looking for material to apply python to bioinformatics!

[@eng.ahmedkamal7476]

Did u get it

[@lanicarina7576]

So helpful and well explained!

[@nishirajnikku969]

Very well explained ...

[@reedliu508]

Every time I try the “A,T,C,G” frequency counts method, it doesn’t work. I input the same order like you, then the error is KeyError Traceback (most recent call last) in () 1 counts = {'A':0, 'G':0, 'C':0, 'T':0} 2 for base in genome: ----> 3 counts[base] += 1 4 print(genome) KeyError: ' '

[@jawswasnevermyscene4258]

Did you use the counter one as well ?

[@rajcodingworld7768]

I hear you given link for fasta file but not finding in description. Will you please share that.

[@son0funiverse]

Yes please share.

[@xzhang4294]

thanks, but the sites can't be reached

[@xzhang4294]

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[@danielromero-alvarez5392]

@@xzhang4294 THANKS! :)

[@purvipatel-birari8220]

Thank you so much for such informative tutorials. However, for this particular video, I am having a difficulty to save the file using !wget. it's giving me alert saying 'wget' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

[@joedart1465]

Why Python? This can be done in javascript too. The syntax is more standard in javascript (like a lot of other programming languages) and you don't have to download python to your computer. And, it runs in the browser. The Python bit is too effete if it requires a course to learn. Bring bioinformatics down to the user level instead of making it into another priesthood.

[@jawswasnevermyscene4258]

@joedart1465 pythons relatively used more than javascript , I have seen more courses in python rather than javascript Although would like to check javascript , might come up in my junior yr Also I love joe dart as well