Required Core Courses

260.600 Introduction to the Biomedical Sciences
140.651 Methods in Biostatistics I
140.652 Methods in Biostatistics II
140.776 Statistical Computing
140.636 PERL for Bioinformatics
140.637 Biological Databases and Distributed Computing

140.638 Analysis of Biological Sequences
140.688
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor
260.602 Introduction to Bioinformatics
260.609 Methods in Transcriptional and Translational Analysis
120.602 Introduction to Molecular Biology

140.860 Capstone Project
550.860 Research Ethics
550.865 Public Health Perspectives on Research I
550.866 Public Health Perspectives on Research II

Introduction to the Biomedical Sciences (260.600) is an intensive short course offered before the beginning of the 1st term. Methods in Transcriptional and Translational Analysis (260.609), the capstone project (140.860), Public Health Perspectives I-II (550.865-6), and Research Ethics (550.860), are normally taken in the second year. From the second term onwards students are required to register for Seminars in Bioinformatics (140.822).

Core Electives

120.603 Molecular Biology of Disease (2nd term, 3 credits)
260.605 Genomics (2nd term, 4 credits)
260.655 Protein Bioinformatics (4th term, 3 units)
140.653 Methods in Biostatistics III (3rd term, 4 credits)
140.654 Methods in Biostatistics IV (4th term, 4 credits)
340.631 Methods in Genetic Epidemiology I (3rd term, 3 credits)
340.632 Methods in Genetic Epidemiology II (4th term, 3 credits)
140.778 Advanced Statistical Computing (2nd term, 3 credits)
140.644 Statistical Learning (4th term, 4 credits)

Recommended Electives

Biostatistics

140.641 Survival Analysis (3rd term, 3 credits)
140.655 Analysis of Longitudinal Data (3rd term, 4 credits)
140.668 Special Topics in Genetics and Genomics (2nd term, 3 credits)
140.671-2 Introduction to Probability I and II (1st-2nd terms, 4 credits each)
140.763 Bayesian Methods (3rd term, 3 credits, offered alternate odd years only)

Computer Science (Homewood campus)

600.111 Practical C (1 credit)
600.303 High Performance Computing (1 credit)
600.315 Database Systems (fall, 3 credits) [or 600.415, same but more advanced]
600.321 Database Systems (fall, 3 credits)
600.363 Introduction to Algorithms (fall, 3 credits)
600.403 Computational Genomics: Sequence Modeling (fall, 1 credit)
600.435 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3 credits)
600.439 Principles of Computational Biology (3 credits)
600.475 Machine Learning (3 credits)

Electrical Engineering (Homewood campus)

520.610 Computational Functional Genomics (spring, 3 credits)

Biomedical Engineering (Homewood campus)

580.690 Systems Biology of Cell Regulation (fall, 3 credits)
580.687 Foundations of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics I (fall, 3 credits)
580.688 Foundations of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics II (spring, 3 credits)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Homewood campus)

550.426 Introduction to Stochastic Processes (spring, 3 credits)
550.435 Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics (spring, 2 credits)
550.436 Data Mining (fall, 3 credits)