MS BIOINFORMATICS – SCHEME OF STUDIES

Core Courses (12 credit hours) Credit hours
Computational Molecular Evolution 3
Advanced Bioinformatics 3
Statistical methods for computational Biology 3
Data Mining 3

Specialization track/Elective Courses: (12 credit hours) Credit hours
Major course 1 (Bioscience group) 3
Major course 2 (Bioscience group) 3
Minor course 1 (Computational group) 3
Minor course 2(Computational group) 3

Specialization track Courses (12 credit hours)

Bioscience courses (06 credit hours)

(All courses are of 3 credit hours and two courses to be taken from this group)

  1. Cancer Genetics
  2. Proteomics
  3. Applied Biotechnology
  4. Immunological Bioinformatics
  5. Cytogenetic
  6. Cell Signaling
  7. Drug Design and development
  8. Applications and Commercial Aspects of Bioinformatics
  9. Molecular mechanism of Antimicrobial Drugs
  10. Molecular modeling and Chemoinformatics
  11. Nanotechnology
  12. Functional genomics

Computational Courses (06 credit hours)
(All courses are of 3 credit hours and two courses to be taken from this group)

  1. PERL Programming
  2. Information Retrieval and Processing
  3. Artificial Intelligence
  4. Image Processing
  5. Microarray Data Analysis
  6. Software Metrics
  7. Advanced Software Architecture
  8. Software Design Patterns
  9. Advanced Software Engineering
  10. Software Requirements Engineering
  11. Formal methods in Software Engineering
  12. Software Quality Assurance and Testing
  13. Machine Learning for Complex Systems

Research Thesis (6 Credit Hours)