Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to analyze and interpret biological data.
Requirements (72 units)
Total units required for graduation: 120
Requirements for the B.S. in Bioinformatics
(Program Code: BINF)
| Lower-division requirements (50) | ||
| BIOL 2010 | Principles of Biology I | 5 |
| BIOL 2020 | Principles of Biology II | 5 |
| CSE 2010 | Computer Science I | 4 |
| CSE 2020 | Computer Science II | 4 |
| CHEM 2100 | General Chemistry I | 4 |
| CHEM 2100L | General Chemistry I Laboratory | 1 |
| CHEM 2200 | General Chemistry II | 4 |
| CHEM 2200L | General Chemistry II Laboratory | 1 |
| CHEM 2300 | Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences | 4 |
| MATH 2210 | Calculus I | 4 |
| MATH 2220 | Calculus II | 4 |
| MATH 2265 | Statistics with Applications | 3 |
| MATH 2310 | Applied Linear Algebra | 4 |
| MATH 2720 | Discrete Mathematics | 3 |
| Upper-division requirements (22) | ||
| BIOL 3120 | Molecular Biology | 4 |
| CHEM 4100 | Biochemistry I | 3 |
| CSE 4310 | Algorithm Analysis | 3 |
| CSE 4880 | Ethics Senior Seminar | 3 |
| CSE 5160 | Machine Learning | 3 |
| CSE 5500 | Advanced Bioinformatics I: Sequence Analysis | 3 |
| CSE 5720 | Database Systems | 3 |
| Total Units | 72 | |