Bioinformatics Minor

The bioinformatics minor is intended primarily for bioinformatics tool users who are majoring in a biological or chemical specialty. The bioinformatics minor is also appropriate for computer science or computer engineering majors who are considering graduate work in bioinformatics. The bioinformatics minor cannot be combined with the biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics major.

Course Requirements

A bioinformatics minor consists of the following 11 courses:

Lower-Division Courses

Biology

BIOL 20A

Cell and Molecular Biology

5

Chemistry

CHEM 1A

General Chemistry

5

Single-Variable Calculus

Either these courses
MATH 19A	Calculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics	5
MATH 19B	Calculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics	5
or these courses
MATH 11A	Calculus with Applications	5
MATH 11B	Calculus with Applications	5
or these courses
MATH 20A	Honors Calculus	5
MATH 20B	Honors Calculus	5

MATH 19A, MATH 19B: preferred

Bioethics

Choose one of the following courses:

BME 80G /PHIL 80G	Bioethics in the 21st Century: Science, Business, and Society	5
BME 18	Scientific Principles of Life	5

Upper-Division Courses

Genetics

Either one of these courses
BME 105	Genetics in the Genomics Era	5
BIOL 105	Genetics	5

BME 105: strongly recommended

Programming

BME 160	Research Programming in the Life Sciences	6
BME 163	Applied Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Data	3

Statistics

STAT 131	Introduction to Probability Theory	5
	AND
One of these courses
STAT 132	Classical and Bayesian Inference	5
STAT 206	Applied Bayesian Statistics	5

Bioinformatics

BME 110

Computational Biology Tools

5