Degree Requirements
Students are required to complete 30 credits of coursework, including 17 credits of required courses and 13 credits of elective courses.
The required courses include course credit for a 16-week bioinformatics internship and internship presentation course.
The recommended electives are listed below. However, students have the flexibility to select other courses and really tailor the program to fit their interests.
CHECKLIST
🗹 6 Required Courses (16 credits)
🗹 Internship Proposal (0.75 credit)
🗹 16-week Bioinformatics Internship (0.25 credit)
🗹 3-4 Electives (13 credits)
Fall Required Courses
BINF 5210: Bioinformatics
4 credits | Tues/Thurs, 1:30pm-3:20pm
Course Instructors: Mark Danielsen, Karen Ross
BINF 5240: Bioinformatics Computing
5 credits | Mon/Wed, 1:15pm-2:45pm; Fri, 10:00am-12:00pm.
Course Instructor: Nathan Edwards
BINF 5730: Bioinformatics Seminar Series I
1 credit | Tues, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 5860: Molecular Biology for Bioinformatics
2 credits | Tues/Thurs, 3:30pm-4:30pm
Course Instructors: Mark Danielsen, Karen Ross
Fall Recommended Electives
SYSM 5910: Biomedical Informatics
3 credits | Wed, 9:00am-12:00pm
Course Instructors: Sona Vasudevan & Alan Zuckerman
PBIO 6504: Introductory Biostatistics
3 credits | Fri, 1:00pm-3:30pm
Course Instructors: Anca Dragomir
Spring Required Courses
BINF 5740: Bioinformatics Seminar Series II
1 credit | Tues, 12:00pm
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 5800: Systems Biology & Bioinformatics
3 credits | Mon/Wed, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 7950: Bioinformatics Internship Proposal
0.75 credits
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 7951: Bioinformatics Internship
0.25 credits | Offered in the Spring & Summer
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
Spring Recommended Electives
BINF 5220: Machine Learning for Bioinformatics
3 credits | Tues/Thurs, 5:00pm-6:20pm
Course Instructors: Noam Bernstein, Nathan Edwards
BINF 5990: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
2 credits | Tues, 1:15pm-3:05pm
Course Instructor: Karen Ross
BINF 6200: Bioinformatics Algorithms
1 or 2 credits
Course Instructor: Nathan Edwards
BINF 6970: Databases for Bioinformatics
3 credits | Fri, 10:00am-1:00pm
Course Instructor: Nathan Edwards
PBIO 6504: Introductory Biostatistics
3 credits | Wed, 10:30am-1:00pm
Course Instructors: Anca Dragomir
SYSM 5940: Translational Bioinformatics
2 credits | Mon, 10:00am-11:50am
Course Instructors: Sona Vasudevan
SYSM 5960: Clinical Metabolomics
2 credits | Thurs, 10:15pm-12:00pm
Course Instructors: Amrita K Cheema & Albert Fornace, Jr.