Course list for the Bioinformatics Dual Major

Information valid for students commencing 2018

Bioinformatics (Dual Major)

(This major is available at St Lucia only)

Prerequisites required for progression in this major:

Course Code Units Course Title
BIOL1020 2 Genes, Cells & Evolution
CHEM1100 2 Chemistry 1
[ SCIE1000 2 Theory & Practice in Science
[ or
[ SCIE1100 2 Advanced Theory and Practice in Science


Dual Major requirements (22 units)

8 units for -

Course Code Units Course Title
BIOL2202 2 Genetics
BIOL3004 2 Genomics & Bioinformatics
BIOL3014 2 Advanced Bioinformatics
SCIE2100 2 Introduction to Bioinformatics

and 6 units from -

Course Code Units Course Title
BIOC2000 2 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
[ BIOL2006 2 Biostatistics & Experimental Design
[ or
[ STAT2003 2 Probability & Statistics
COSC2500 2 Numerical Methods in Computational Science
CSSE2002 2 Programming in the Large
DECO2500 2 Human-Computer Interaction

and 8 units from -

Course Code Units Course Title
BIOC3000 2 Advanced Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
BIOC3003 2 Human Molecular Genetics & Disease
BIOC3005 2 Molecular Systems Biology
BIOL3203 2 Plant Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
CHEM3011 2 Advanced Physical Chemistry
COMP3506 2 Algorithms & Data Structures
COMP3702 2 Artificial Intelligence
COSC3000 2 Visualization, Computer Graphics & Data Analysis
COSC3500 2 High-Performance Computing
INFS3200 2 Advanced Database Systems
INFS3202 2 Web Information Systems
MATH3104 2 Mathematical Biology
MICR3003 2 Molecular Microbiology
MICR3004 2 Microbial Genomics
STAT3004 2 Probability Models & Stochastic Processes
STAT3306 2 Statistical Analysis of Genetic Data