Bioinformatics Concentration

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Concentration Requirements

The bioinformatics concentration requires that a student takes three qualifying exams. At least two of the qualifying exams must be chosen from the required courses for the bioinformatics concentration. One of the qualifying exams can be the required (core) course either from concentration in mathematics or from concentration in statistics.

Required Courses (15 Hours)

Students must take five of the following six required courses (15 credit hours):

MATH 8500 - Systems Biology 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8505 - Advanced Mathematical Biology 3 Credit Hours (if not taken as a required course)
MATH 8515 - Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8520 - Applied Combinatorics and Graph Theory 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8525 - Applied Stochastic Processes 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8560 - Informatics of Neural and Cardiovascular Systems 3 Credit Hours

9 Credit Hours Selected from

Students must take at least 9 credit hours selected from the list below (9 credit hours).

MATH 6010 - Mathematical Biology 3 Credit Hours
MATH 6275 - Applied Dynamical Systems 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8501 - Math Modeling of Epidemiology 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8510 - Applied Mathematics 3 Credit Hours (if not taken as a common core course)
MATH 8505 - Advanced Mathematical Biology 3 Credit Hours
MATH 8540 - Advanced Topics in Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamic Systems 3 Credit Hours
STAT 8561 - Linear Statistical Analysis I 3 Credit Hours
STAT 8581 - Statistical Theory I 3 Credit Hours
STAT 8582 - Statistical Theory II 3 Credit Hours
STAT 8610 - Time Series Analysis 3 Credit Hours

At Least 18 Credit Hours

Students must take at least 18 credit hours that should be selected from other graduate level courses in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and courses from other departments listed below. The total number of required hours of coursework is 54; if STAT 8561 is taken as part of the core and used to also satisfy the 9 required hours above, a student must take additional coursework in Mathematics and Statistics or from the list below.

BIOL 6102 - Neurobiology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6248 - Cell Physiology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6428 - Medical Microbiology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6500 - Human Genetics 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6564 - Advanced Genetics 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6565 - General Oncology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6575 - Virology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 6800 - Principles of Cellular Biology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 7240 - Applied Medical Physiology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 7430 - Biotechnology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 7800 - Molecular Cell Biology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 7880 - Microbiology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 7900 - Genetics 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 8010 - Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 8020 - Systems Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 8220 - Advanced Molecular Cell Biology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8248 - Advanced Cellular Physiology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8278 - Molecular Immunology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8310 - Concepts in Cell Biology and Physiology 2 Credit Hours
BIOL 8360 - Protein Structure and Function 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 8410 - Advanced Microbiology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8510 - Concepts in Microbiology 2 Credit Hours
BIOL 8610 - Physiology and Genetics of Prokaryotes 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8620 - Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8675 - Molecular Virology 4 Credit Hours
BIOL 8710 - Concepts in Molecular Genetics 2 Credit Hours
CHEM 6110 - Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6120 - Quantum Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6150 - Introduction to Biophysical Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6410 - Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6450 - Molecular Modeling Methods 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6590 - Special Topics in Physical Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6600 - Biochemistry I 5 Credit Hours
CHEM 6610 - Biochemistry II 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6630 - Enzymology 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 6640 - Fundamentals of Bioinformatics 4 Credit Hours
CHEM 8360 - Protein Structure and Function 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 8370 - Nucleic Acid Structure and Function 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 8400 - Medicinal Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 8510 - Biophysical Chemistry 4 Credit Hours
CHEM 8520 - Computational Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
CHEM 8620 - Advanced Topics in Biochemistry 3 Credit Hours
CSC 8630 - Advanced Bioinformatics 4 Credit Hours
CSC 8711 - Databases and the Web 4 Credit Hours
NEUR 6330 - Functional Neuroimaging 3 Credit Hours
NEUR 6340 - Neurophysics 3 Credit Hours
NEUR 8380 - Computational Neuroscience 3 Credit Hours

Dissertation Research

(at least 30 hours of MATH 9999 or STAT 9999)

MATH 9999 - Dissertation Research 1 to 18 Credit Hours
or
STAT 9999 - Dissertation Research 1 to 18 Credit Hours