Undergraduate Courses in Bioinformatics

Undergraduate Bioinformatics Course:

(Gibas) –Prerequisite: Genetics.

Introduction to biological databases, commonly-used bioinformatics software for molecular sequence and structure analysis, and applications of bioinformatics analysis in biological research.

BINF 4010: Applied Data Mining -- Spring 2010

(S. Schlueter) - Prerequisite: Introduction to Statistics

Concepts and techniques of evaluating bioinformatic data. The objective of this course is to provide students with a working knowledge of data sources, current tools and methodologies used for bioinformatics research through a variety of hands-on data analysis activities

Undergraduate students who are interested in majoring in Bioinformatics:

Currently an undergraduate Bioinformatics degree is not offered at UNC Charlotte. However, you can tailor your degree by taking courses that would be the equivalent of a Bioinformatics undergraduate degree.

"What courses should I take in my undergraduate degree to gain knowledge in bioinformatics?"

Computer Science: Programming in java, C++, perl, or python, Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming

Biology: Cell Biology, Genetics

Chemistry: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry

Statistics: ANOVA, Multivariate, Advanced Statistics