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

All of the following courses:

BIOL20A

Cell and Molecular Biology

5

Chemistry

The following course:

CHEM1A

General Chemistry

5

Single-Variable Calculus

Choose one of the following options:

Either these courses
MATH19A	Calculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics	5
MATH19B	Calculus for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics	5
or these courses
MATH11A	Calculus with Applications	5
MATH11B	Calculus with Applications	5
or these courses
MATH20A	Honors Calculus	5
MATH20B	Honors Calculus	5

MATH 19A, MATH 19B: preferred

Bioethics

Choose one of the following courses:

BME80G /PHIL 80G	Bioethics in the 21st Century: Science, Business, and Society	5
BME18	Scientific Principles of Life	5

Upper-Division Courses

Genetics

Choose one of the following courses:

BME105	Genetics in the Genomics Era	5
BIOL105	Genetics	5

BME 105: strongly recommended

Programming

All of the following courses:

BME160	Research Programming in the Life Sciences	6
BME163	Applied Visualization and Analysis of Scientific Data	5

Statistics

All of the following courses:

STAT131	Introduction to Probability Theory	5
STAT132	Classical and Bayesian Inference	5

Bioinformatics

The following course:

BME110

Computational Biology Tools

5