Curriculum

Curriculum

Coursework

Core Courses

BIOL SCI 323 Bioinformatics: Biological Sequence and Structure Analysis
BIOL SCI 378 Functional Genomics
CHEM ENG 395 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering : Networks
EECS 336 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
IBIS 407 Genome Scale Science
STAT 465 Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Seminar and Related Courses

CBB 460 CBB Seminar Series
CBB 499 CBB Projects
CBB 560 CBB Research Internship

Elective Courses

Our curriculum assures competencies in the design and development of new algorithms, design and analysis of computer-based (in silico) biological experiments, formulation and analysis of mathematical models, and effective mining of large-scale genomic and proteomic data. Students are required to complete three core courses, a program-long zero-credit seminar sequence, five electives (at least three of them advanced), at least three units of independent research culminating in a thesis, and a research internship with an industrial partner. Completion of the program requires four to five quarters of graduate work in addition to one summer term and culminates with earning a Master of Science degree.

The Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics has been suspended and no further admission activity will take place, effective in the summer of 2008.

 Bruce A. Lindvall, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Phone 847-491-4547
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