Graduate Concentration:
Bioinformatics
The Bioinformatics concentration prepares professionals to work at the interface of computer technology, applied mathematics, and biology.
Students will graduate with knowledge and skills that will allow them to go in any of several high-demand directions within the bioinformatics field.
The following is a sampling of career paths (in industry, government, and academia) now available to graduates of the M.S. IT/Bioinformatics area:
- development of algorithms and computational approaches to gene finding and prediction of molecular structure;
- design and maintenance of databases for biological data;
- management of projects that integrate computer and biological technology with other technologies (particularly robotics);
- improvement of human-computer interaction with existing bioinformatics software.
Applicants must have completed undergraduate course work in introductory biology and have one year of college level mathematics. An undergraduate course in biochemistry is also recommended.
| Concentration Course Options |
| Course # |
Course Title |
Semester |
| BIOL-6410 |
Bioinformatics I: Sequence Analysis |
Fall |
| BIOL-6420 |
Bioinformatics II: Molecular Modeling |
Spring |
| CSCI-6390 |
Database Mining, or |
Fall |
| CSCI-6210 |
Design and Analysis of Algorithms |
Fall |
| Select one of the following electives: |
| DSES-6180 |
Knowledge Discovery with Data Mining |
Spring* |
| CHEM-4330 |
Drug Discovery |
Fall |
| CSCI-6460 |
Advanced Database Management Topics |
Spring* |
| BIOL-696X |
Proteomics |
Spring* |
Additional electives available subject to approval.
*Special topics and/or alternate year options
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