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

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

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

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