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:

BIOL 20ACell and Molecular Biology

5

Chemistry

The following course:

CHEM 1AGeneral Chemistry

5

Single-Variable Calculus

Choose one of the following options:

Either these courses

MATH 19ACalculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

5

MATH 19BCalculus 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

Choose one of the following courses:

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

5

BME 18Scientific Principles of Life

5

Upper-Division Courses

Genetics

Choose one of the following courses:

BME 105Genetics in the Genomics Era

5

BIOL 105Genetics

5

BME 105: strongly recommended

Programming

All of the following courses:

BME 160Research Programming in the Life Sciences

6

BME 163Applied Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Data

3

Statistics

The following courses:

STAT 131Introduction to Probability Theory

5

AND

One of these courses

STAT 132Classical and Bayesian Inference

5

STAT 206Applied Bayesian Statistics

5

Bioinformatics

The following course:

BME 110Computational Biology Tools

5