Bioinformatics Department Handbook Ucla Bioinformatics The ucla bioinformatics minor allows students to develop an integrated understanding of genomic scale research. through a comprehensive set of courses, it pr. Ucla computational medicine box 951766, 5303 life sciences building los angeles, ca 90095 1766 general inquiries: [email protected].

Bioinformatics Department Handbook Ucla Bioinformatics Through completing the bioinformatics minor, students will be able to: over 45 faculty specializing in computational and experimental biology are associated with the bioinformatics minor, spanning biology, mathematics, engineering, and medicine. We strategized the bioinformatics minor program at ucla specifically to attract students at any stage of their college career and to maximize curricular flexibility so students can easily complete minor requirements. To obtain a minor in bioinformatics, students first complete background lower division courses in programming, biology and mathematics. next, they build on this foundation with a bioinformatics gateway seminar course and complete the bioinformatics core curriculum, an upper division course on algorithms, and one upper division elective course. Students undertaking the bioinformatics minor explore the genetic determinants of complex human disease, including psychiatric diseases and cancer, the development of computational methods for the analysis of expression data and the epigenome, and the study of population genetics and evolution.

Bioinformatics M S Students Ucla Bioinformatics To obtain a minor in bioinformatics, students first complete background lower division courses in programming, biology and mathematics. next, they build on this foundation with a bioinformatics gateway seminar course and complete the bioinformatics core curriculum, an upper division course on algorithms, and one upper division elective course. Students undertaking the bioinformatics minor explore the genetic determinants of complex human disease, including psychiatric diseases and cancer, the development of computational methods for the analysis of expression data and the epigenome, and the study of population genetics and evolution. The bioinformatics minor introduces undergraduate students to the emerging interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics, an active area of research at ucla combining elements of the computational sciences with the biological sciences. If you are considering a career in computational biology, the minor program will provide an excellent introduction to core concepts in the field while offering a hands on learning experience in wet and dry labs. Celebrating achievement: 26 students graduate with a minor in bioinformatics on thursday, june 5th, the department of computational medicine hosted a graduation event honoring the graduating students. These courses cover various topics in bioinformatics, genomics and computational biology. all of these courses are electives in the bioinformatics minor. unlike the bioinformatics core courses, many of these courses do not require the programming or statistics prerequisites.