Bioinformatics Minor

The bioinformatics minor is intended primarily for bioinformatics tool users who are majoring in a biological or chemical specialty. The bioinformatics minor is also appropriate for computer science or computer engineering majors who are considering graduate work in bioinformatics. The bioinformatics minor cannot be combined with the biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics major.

Course Requirements

A bioinformatics minor consists of the following 11 courses:

Lower-Division Courses

Biology

All of the following courses:

BIOL20ACell and Molecular Biology

5

Chemistry

The following course:

CHEM1AGeneral Chemistry

5

Single-Variable Calculus

Choose one of the following options:

Either these courses

MATH19ACalculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

5

MATH19BCalculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

5

or these courses

MATH11ACalculus with Applications

5

MATH11BCalculus with Applications

5

or these courses

MATH20AHonors Calculus

5

MATH20BHonors Calculus

5

MATH 19A, MATH 19B: preferred

Bioethics

Choose one of the following courses:

BME80G
/PHIL 80G
Bioethics in the 21st Century: Science, Business, and Society

5

BME18Scientific Principles of Life

5

Upper-Division Courses

Genetics

Choose one of the following courses:

BME105Genetics in the Genomics Era

5

BIOL105Genetics

5

BME 105: strongly recommended

Programming

All of the following courses:

BME160Research Programming in the Life Sciences

6

BME163Applied Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Data

5

Statistics

All of the following courses:

STAT131Introduction to Probability Theory

5

STAT132Classical and Bayesian Inference

5

Bioinformatics

The following course:

BME110Computational Biology Tools

5