Courses
Students are required to complete 30 credits of coursework, including 17 credits of required courses and 13 credits of elective courses.
The recommended electives are listed below. However, students have the flexibility to select other courses and really tailor the program to fit their interests.
Fall (for Two-Semester Students)
Fall Required Courses
BINF 5210 Bioinformatics
4 credits | Tues/Thurs, 1:30-3:20 p.m.
Course Instructors: Mark Danielsen, Karen Ross
BINF 5240 Bioinformatics Computing
5 credits | Mon/Wed, 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.; Fri, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Course Instructor: Nathan Edwards
BINF 5730 Bioinformatics Seminar Series I
1 credit | Tues, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 5860 Molecular Biology for Bioinformatics
2 credits | Tues/Thurs, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Course Instructors: Mark Danielsen, Karen Ross
Fall Recommended Electives
BINF 5220 Machine Learning for Bioinformatics
3 credits | Mon/Thurs, 5-6:20 p.m.
Course Instructors: Noam Bernstein, Karen Ross
PHSL 6504 Biostatistics
3 credits | Fri, 1-3:30 p.m.
Course Instructor: Anca Dragomir
SYSM 5910 Biomedical Informatics
3 credits | Wed, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Course Instructors: Sona Vasudevan, Alan Zuckerman
Spring (for Two-Semester Students)
Spring Required Courses
BINF 5740 Bioinformatics Seminar Series II
1 credit | Tues, 12 p.m.
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 5800 Systems Biology & Bioinformatics
3 credits | Mon/Wed, 1:30-3 p.m.
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
BINF 7950 Bioinformatics Internship Proposal
1 credit
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards
Spring Recommended Electives
BINF 5990 Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
2 credits | Tues, 1:15-3:05 p.m.
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 a.m.-1 p.m.
Course Instructor: Abdelghani Bellaachia, Nathan Edwards
IMHS 6504 Intro to Experimental Design & Data Analysis
3 credits | Wed, 10:30 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Course Instructor: Anca Dragomir
SYSM 5940 Translational Bioinformatics
2 credits | Mon, 10-11:50 a.m.
Course Instructor: Sona Vasudevan
SYSM 5960 Clinical Metabolomics
2 credits | Thurs, 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m.
Course Instructors: Amrita K Cheema, Albert Fornace Jr.
Summer (for Two-Semester Students)
Summer Required Courses
BINF 7951 Bioinformatics Internship
0 credits
Course Instructors: Karen Ross, Nathan Edwards