2016-2017Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Schedule of Classes

Master of Science Degree

Total: 55 credits

Year 1 Fall Term / Year 1 Winter Term / Year 1 Spring Term / Year 1 Summer Term
BMI 565 Bioinformatics Programming & Scripting (3) / BMI 551 Statistical Methods in Computational Biology (4) / BMI 546 Software Engineering (3) / BMI 569 Data Analytics (3).
Select Thesis Advisor
BMI 550 Algorithms (4) / BMI 552A Research in Bioinformatics (2) / BMI 552B Research in Bioinformatics (2) / Submit 1-page research aims document to advisor (cc Program Coordinator)
MATH 530 Probability & Statistical Inference for Scientists and Engineers (3). (Prereq for CS 559.) / CS 559 Machine Learning (3) Instructor’s signature required. / Select committee members
BMI 553 Readings in Bioinformatics (1)
Year 2 Fall Term / Year 2 Winter Term / Year 2 Spring Term
BMI 530 Practice of Healthcare (3) / BMI 544 Databases (3) / BMI 576 Managing Ethics in Biomedical Informatics (3)
BMI 570 Scientific Writing (3)
BMI 559 Computational Genetics (3)OR BMI 512 Clinical Information Systems (3) / BMI 503 Thesis (4) / BMI 503 Thesis (4)
BMI 503 Thesis (4)

Students may take electives if desired. All electives will be in addition to the required total of 55 credits in the MS.

See BEHN website for current course offerings:

BEHN 516/616 Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Fall term, alternate years beginning 2010-11

BEHN 517/617 Neurochemical Substrates of Addiction Spring term, alternate years beginning 2011-12

BEHN 518/618 Behavioral Neuroscience Fall term, alternate years beginning 2010-11

BEHN 519/619 Molecular Strategies in Behavioral Research Spring term, alternate years beginning 2010-11

BEHN 525/625 Behavioral Genetics Spring term, alternate years beginning 2009-10

BEHN 526/626 Behavioral Psychopharmacology Winter term, alternate years beginning 2010-11

BME 565 Intro to Computational Neurophysiology (3) Spring term. Check BME website for availability.
BMI 510/610 Introduction to Biomedical Informatics (3)
BMI 514/614 Information Retrieval (3) Spring term odd years only
BMI 516/616 Standards for Interoperability (3) Summer hybrid even years only
BMI 542/642 Computer Networks (3) Spring term odd years only
BMI 548/648 Human Computer Interaction in Biomedicine (3) – Summer hybrid
BMI 558/658 Biological Modeling and Simulation (3) Spring term even years only
BMI 567/667 Network Science and Biology (3) Fall term odd years only
Please see the PSU CS website for complete course information at:
SySc 551 Discrete Multivariate Modeling
OHSU CSLU (Center for Spoken Language Understanding) courses (schedule of classes TBD). Please see the OHSU CSLU website for complete course information.
CS/EE 506/606 Special Topics: Problem Solving on Large Scale Clusters
CS/EE 506/606 Special Topics: Research Programming
CS/EE 506/606 Special Topics: Speech Signal Processing
CS/EE 533/633 Automata and Formal Languages (Summer)
CS/EE 547/647Statistical Pattern Recognition (3)
CS/EE 555/655 Analyzing Sequences
CS/EE 560/660 Artificial Intelligence (3)
CS/EE 562/662 Natural Language Processing (3)
EE 584/684 Introduction to Image Processing (3)

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