Bioinformatics Concentration

Biology Courses (18 hours)

Elective Courses (13 hours)

• BIOL 6000- and/or 8000-level classes (10 hours). Must include at least 6 hours of topics or concepts and BIOL 6801   orBIOL 8310  except Biol 6900. BIOL 7000-level courses are not applicable.

• BIOL 6640 - Fundamentals of Bioinformatics 4 Credit Hours
• BIOL 8000 - Responsible Conduct in Research 1 Credit Hours

Interdisciplinary Courses (12 hours)

Select 12 hours of courses in bioinformatics offered by the Mathematics and Statistics and/or Computer Science Departments (specified prerequisites may be used).

• CSC 6310 - Parallel and Distributed Computing 4 Credit Hours
• CSC 6350 - Software Engineering 4 Credit Hours
• CSC 6710 - Database Systems 4 Credit Hours
• CSC 6730 - Data Visualization 4 Credit Hours
• CSC 8630 - Advanced Bioinformatics 4 Credit Hours
• CSC 8710 - Deductive Databases and Logic Programming 4 Credit Hours
• MATH 6544 - Biostatistics 3 Credit Hours
• MATH 6548 - Methods of Regression and Analysis of Variance 3 Credit Hours
• STAT 8540 - Advanced Methodologies in Biostatistics 3 Credit Hours

Qualifying Exam

• BIOL 9991 - Doctoral Research Proposal 2 Credit Hours

• or

• BIOL 9992 - Doctoral Research Proposal 2 Credit Hours

Research (53 hours)

Students register for BIOL 8800  before the Dissertation Committee chaired by the faculty advisor approves the Dissertation proposal and BIOL 8999   after the proposal is approved.

Dissertation

Dissertation is submitted to the Dissertation Committee and publicly defended.