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Educational Programs
The Center for Integrated Bioinformatics at
Drexel provides a rich and interdisciplinary environment for undergraduate and
graduate education in bioinformatics concentration. The following items
summarize the educational offerings of the bioinformatics concentration
programs:
Undergraduate Bioinformatics Education
Undergraduate minor program (concentration) in bioinformatics is available from
within three undergraduate bodies: College of Arts & Sciences; College of
Information Science &Technology, and the School of Biomedical Engineering. The
templates for these programs are available in the websites of these educational
subunits. The undergraduate bioinformatics minor is directed towards providing
students with a strong background in system biology and bioinformatics.
Masters Degree Programs with Bioinformatics Concentration
Graduate students enrolled in various Drexel colleges and schools may dictate a
concentration in bioiformatics. The concentration is directed at students who
are seeking an industrial career as information experts in the biotechnology
and/or pharmaceutical industries, and is suitable for students with a wide range
of backgrounds--biology, chemistry and computer science. These students take
courses in such topics as biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics,
statistics, programming languages, algorithms, databases, and bio-computations.
A summer internship program with participating pharmaceutical and biotech
companies was organized under the auspices of GPBA, The Greater Philadelphia
Bioinformatics Institute.
The Center is working with Drexel Colleges and
Schools in developing a full MS curriculum leading to a masters degree in
bioinformatics. The Masters Degree Program in bioinformatics will require
capstone bioinformatics courses and electives chosen from a selection of courses
that include molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, development and
differentiation, tissue engineering, programming, data structures and
algorithms, statistics and discrete mathematics, signal processing, feedback
systems and controls, and pattern recognition.
Doctoral Program in Integrated Bioinformatics
Doctoral program is aimed at students who wish to follow research careers in
bioinformatics, genomics and/or computational biology and medicine. It is
appropriate for students with a strong background in one or more relevant
fields, such as molecular biology, biomedical engineering, computer science, or
genetics. Building on these, the graduate program provides advanced education in
various aspects of bioinformatics, computational biology and genomics, including
as appropriate genetics, computer science, mathematics and statistics, and
molecular and cell biology.
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