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. Due to course overlap, the bioinformatics minor cannot be combined with the biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics major (BMEB) B.S. or biotechnology B.A.

Course Requirements

Lower-Division Courses

Biology

BIOL 20ACell and Molecular Biology

5

Chemistry

Either this course

CHEM 3AGeneral Chemistry

5

or these courses

CHEM 4AAdvanced General Chemistry: Molecular Structure and Reactivity

5

CHEM 4ALAdvanced General Chemistry Lab

2

Single-Variable Calculus

Either these courses

MATH 19ACalculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

5

or these courses

MATH 11ACalculus with Applications

5

MATH 11BCalculus with Applications

5

or these courses

MATH 20AHonors Calculus

5

MATH 20BHonors Calculus

5

MATH 19A, MATH 19B: preferred

Bioethics

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

5

Upper-Division Courses

Genetics

Choose one of the following:

One of these courses

BME 105Genetics in the Genomics Era

5

OR

BIOL 105Genetics

5

OR

METX 140Molecular Biology and Microbial Genetics

5

BME 105: strongly recommended

Programming

BME 160Research Programming in the Life Sciences

6

BME 163Applied Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Data

5

Statistics

STAT 131Introduction to Probability Theory

5

Bioinformatics

BME 110Computational Biology Tools

5

Electives

Choose one of the following:

One of these courses

BME 118Mathematics of the Mind

5

BME 122HExtreme Environmental Virology

5

BME 130Genomes

5

BME 132Evolutionary Genomics

5