Required and Elective Courses

Required Core Courses for the Molecular and Computational Biology and Translational Bioinformatics Tracks

Course Number Course Description Credits
SYBB 459 Bioinformatics for Systems Biology 3
SYBB 555 Current Proteomics 3
SYBB 501 Biomedical Informatics and Systems Biology Journal Club 0
SYBB 601 Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Research 1-18
SYBB 651 Thesis MS (For MS Students only) 1-18
SYBB 701 Dissertation PhD (For PhD students only) 1-9

 

Elective Courses

Genes and Proteins Courses

Course Number Course Description Credits
EPBI/GENE/MPHP 451
CLBY 555/BIOC 555/PATH 555
Principles of Genetic Epidemiology 3
PHOL/CHEM/PHRM/BIOC/NEUR 475 Protein Biophysics 3
PHOL 456 Conversations on Protein Structure and Function 2
PHOL 480 Physiology of Organ Systems 4
CBIO 453 Cell Biology I 4
CBIO 455 Molecular Biology I 4
BIOC 420 Current Topics in Cancer 3
BIOC 528 Contemporary Approaches to Drug Discovery 3
BETH 412 Ethical Issues in Genetics/Genomics 3

 

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Courses 

Course Number Course Description Credits
EPBI 415 Statistical Computing and Data Analytics 3
BIOL/EECS 419 Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes for Biology 3
PHRM/PHOL/CHEM/BIOC 430 Advanced Methods in Structural Biology 1-6
EECS 458 Introduction to Bioinformatics 3
NEUR 478/BIOL 378/COGS
MATH 378/BIOL 478/EBME 478
Computational Neuroscience 3
GENE 508 Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics 3
BIOC 430 Advanced Methods in Structural Biology 1-6

 

Quantitative Analysis and Modeling

Course Number Course Description Credits
EPBI 431 Statistical Methods I 3
EPBI 432 Statistical Methods II 3
EPBI 480 Introduction to Statistical Theory 3
EPBI 481 Theoretical Statistics I 3
EPBI 482 Theoretical Statistics II 3
EPBI 460 Introduction to Health Services Research 3
EPBI 515 Secondary Analysis of Large Health Care Data Bases 3
MPHP 405 Statistical Methods in Public Health 3
EECS 435 Data Mining 3
EECS 440 Machine Learning 3
MATH 441 Mathematical Modeling 3
EBME 300/MATH 449 Dynamics of Biological Systems: A Quantitative Introduction to Biology 3
MIDS 301 Introduction to Information: A Systems and Design Approach 3