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Bioinformatics - Master of Science
Bioinformatics is a new discipline of science that organizes and translates the overwhelming amount of data recently available on living organisms as a result of the human genome project and follow-up projects. This new branch of science requires comprehensive training in biology, chemistry, and computer science. The Master of Science program in Bioinformatics prepares students for academia or the fast-paced pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries. The flexible curriculum fosters sufficient exposure to and mastery of computer science skills and commercial databases, such as Oracle and Psibase. In addition, students will learn widely used bioinformatics methods, including dynamic programming, profiles, hidden Markov chains and neural nets to predict protein secondary structure. The core goal is for students to understand sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, and structure/function relationship.
Courses for the Bioinformatics MS Degree program include:
- Bioinformatics I: Sequence Analysis
- Bioinformatics II: Protein Structure
- Bioinformatics III: Functional Prediction
- Chemoinformatics
- Chemical Foundation for Bioinformatics
- Biological Foundation for Bioinformatics
- Introduction to Computer Science
- Data Structures and Algorithms
All undergraduate and graduate programs at Polytechnic Institute of NYU are accredited by the Middle States Association. |
