Computer Science Bioinformatics - Case Western Reserve University

Computer Science Bioinformatics from Case Western Reserve University is a Campus Bachelor Bioinformatics degree that prepares you for a Science career. Computer Science (CS) majors can use their electives to form concentrations in areas related to CS. The BS/CS program has 5 technical electives and 4 open electives and the BA/CS program has many more electives which gives the student considerable flexibility. This document lists a number of possible concentration areas together with courses in each area. Some of these courses are required for CS majors because they need at least some background in many of the listed areas. Taking additional courses in an area will give them additional background in the area. Normally a student will not take all of the courses listed for an area, but rather only those courses which best meet his/her educational objectives. Thus, this document is intended to help CS majors formulate programs of study that will meet their education objectives, recognizing that these objectives may change as students progress though the programs. Bioinformatics Recently there has been an explosion of available biological data which has been stored in various data repositories; e. g., human genome data. Although this data is very useful for biomedical research, both basic and applied, special tools are needed to organize and access the data because of its sheer volume and unconventional structure; database management techniques by themselves are not adequate. Bioinformatics is concerned with the development of algorithms and computer systems that will enable biomedical researchers to explore the data in these repositories in order to find the data which is needed for their research, as well as to filter out data which is not relevant. Research in bioinformatics requires at lease some background in both computer science and biology. Relevant CS courses are EECS 340 Algorithms & Data Structures (Required) EECS 341 Introduction to Database Systems (Required) EECS 366/466 Computer Graphics EECS 405 Data Structures & File Management EECS 433 Database Systems EECS 435 Data Mining EECS 454 Analysis of Algorithms EECS 458 Introduction to Bioinformatics Relevant Biology/Biochemistry courses are listed below. Three of the technical electives for the BS/CS program can come from this list. A student can get a Minor in Biology by taking BIOL 214, BIOL 215, BIOL 216 and 2 biology electives. BIOL 214 Genes and Evolution BIOL 215 Cells and Proteins BIOL 216 Organisms and Ecosystems CHEM 223 Introductory Organic Chemistry I BIOL 250 Introduction to Cell Molecular Biological Systems BIOL 300 Dynamics of Biological Systems BIOC 307 General Biochemistry BIOC/BIOL 308 Molecular Biology: Genes and Genetic Engineering BIOL 316 Fundamental Immunology BIOL 325 Cell Biology BIOL 326 Genetics BIOL 328 Plant Genomics and Proteomics BIOL 334 Structural Biology of Proteins, Enzymes, and Nucleic Acids BIOL 343 Microbiology BIOL 364 Endocrinology View more details on Case Western Reserve University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Bioinformatics courses.