Certificate in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is a rapidly growing area in the biotechnology industry today. The certificate in Bioinformatics is intended to provide students with a core set of knowledge and skills in bioinformatics.

Students will take the following 5 courses for the certificate:

Total Semester Hours: 15

Students must take the following courses:

• UCSP 615 Orientation to Graduate Studies at UMUC (0) Must complete with first 6 credits of study.
• BIOT 630 Introduction to Bioinformatics (3)
• BIFS 613 Statistical Processes for Biotechnology (3)
• BIFS 617 Advanced Bioinformatics (3)
• DBST 651 Relational Database Systems (3)
• BIFS 614 Data Structures and Algorithms (3)