The minor in Bioinformatics allows students to develop an integrated understanding of contemporary genomic-scale research. Through a comprehensive inventory of courses, the minor in Bioinformatics provides a solid foundation in, and familiarity with, active research problems at the interface of computer science, biology, and mathematics.

Students undertaking the Bioinformatics Minor explore the genetic determinants of complex human diseases, including psychiatric diseases and cancer, the development of computational methods for the analysis of expression data and the epigenome, and the study of population genetics and evolution.

Through completing the Bioinformatics Minor, students will be able to:

1. undertake advanced computer programming tasks
2. understand issues fundamental to the inherent structure of biological information
3. develop computational methods to analyze biological data
4. engage in active research with a strong and growing group of faculty
5. competitively apply to graduate programs in Bioinformatics
6. competitively enter the biotechnology industry