MS Core Curriculum

Master of Science in Bioinformatics - Requirements
(as of 2022-2023 catalog year)
Core classes = 21 semester hours
Electives = 15 semester hours
Total = 36 semester hours

Core Curriculum for the MS Bioinformatics Degree
Substitution of any of these core courses requires permission of the program director.

Offered fall semesters:

• BIOL 6150, Genomics and Applied Bioinformatics
• BIOL 7200, Programming for Bioinformatics

Offered spring semesters:

• BIOL 7210, Computational Genomics
• CX 4803, Machine Learning in Computational Biology 

Offered fall and spring semesters:

• CS 4400, Introduction to Database Systems

Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters:

• MSBINF Statistics Requirement (Choose one)
  • BIOS 4401
  • MATH 3215

*MSBINF Capstone may be fulfilled by several allowable courses, including:

• BIOL 6600, Evolution
• BIOL 7111, Molecular Evolution
• BIOL 7015, Cancer Biology
• BIOL 8510, Epigenetics
• BIOL 8530, Human Evolutionary Genomics
• BIOL 8803, Applied Human Computational Genomics
• CEE 6720, Environmental Microbial Genomics
• CSE 6242, Data and Visual Analytics

Electives for the MS Bioinformatics Degree
Students may choose from a wide range of graduate courses in Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Computational Sciences and Engineering, Chemistry, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Mathematics.  For a full list of recommended electives, please see: https://bioinformatics.gatech.edu/recommended-courses.