• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

The Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics engages you in an interdisciplinary field that enables students to make sense out of the wave of ‘big data’ that is key to personalized medicine and many areas of biological science.

This is a research-intensive program that gives you the skills and theoretical knowledge necessary to make meaningful contributions early on. Throughout the program, students will engage in research-based courses as well as a student-faculty research group. The goal of these focused learning groups is for students to produce and present independent professional-level work. Disciplines are approached and examined from a perspective that illuminates biological processes at a systems-level. Computer science techniques such as pattern matching, machine learning algorithms, microarray statistical analysis and next-generation gene sequence data are also explored.

Major Requirements: The BS in Bioinformatics requires 83 hours of major courses, which include a combination of computer science, computational biology, mathematics/statistics and chemistry.

Electives: Students complete an additional 12 hours of elective courses from the sciences.

General Education Requirements: 57 hours of general education courses are required over the course of four years in addition to major courses and electives.

A few examples of courses students in this major take:

Mathematical Modeling in Biology – An introduction to ordinary differential equations and their applications to biology. Topics include first-order differential equations, first-order systems, linear systems, nonlinear systems, forcing and resonance, numerical methods, and dynamical systems, as time permits. Biological modeling and examples drawn from research articles in biology will be incorporated throughout the course.

Bioinformatics – Focuses on the development and application of computational approaches to ask and answer biological questions. Material will be drawn from specific, relevant biological problems including biological sequence analysis, genome sequencing and assembly, biological pattern recognition, analysis of DNA microarray data, and biological networks.

Biological Programming – Taught in the context of biological research, this course introduces students to the principles and tools necessary to manipulate and analyze biological data. With an emphasis on data acquisition and analysis, topics may include computational techniques used in the study of genomes and proteomes, ecological data analysis and mathematical modeling of biological systems.

所属院系

中国学生入学要求

课程信息

学制：全日制(4 年)

学费：US$46,690.00 (¥ 302,266) /年

开学时间：预计在一月 2022

申请截止日期：

留学地点：School of Natural Sciences3001 South Congress,AUSTIN,Texas,78704, United States