Requirements

B.S. IN BIOINFORMATICS

Requirements (131-132 units)
Total units required for graduation: 194

Requirements for the B.S. in Bioinformatics:

Lower-division requirements (74 units)

  1. BIOL 200. Biology of the Cell (5)
  2. BIOL 201. Biology of Organisms (5)
  3. BIOL 202. Biology of Populations (5)
  4. CHEM 215. General Chemistry I: Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonding (6)
  5. CHEM 216. General Chemistry II: Principles of Chemical Reactions (6)
  6. CHEM 221A. Organic Chemistry I: Lecture (3)
  7. CHEM 221B. Organic Chemistry I: Laboratory (1)
  8. CHEM 222A. Organic Chemistry II: Lecture (3)
  9. CHEM 222B. Organic Chemistry II: Laboratory (1)
  10. CHEM 223A. Organic Chemistry III: Lecture (3)
  11. CHEM 223B. Organic Chemistry III: Laboratory (1)
  12. CSE 122. Bioinformatics (2)
  13. CSE 201. Computer Science I (4)
  14. CSE 202. Computer Science II (4)
  15. MATH 211. Calculus I (4)
  16. MATH 212. Calculus II (4)
  17. MATH 262. Applied Statistics (4)
  18. MATH 272. Discrete Mathematics (4)
  19. PHIL 191. Ethics (4)
  20. PHYS 221. General Physics I (5)

Upper-division requirements (57-58 units)

  1. BIOL 300. Cell Physiology (5)
  2. BIOL 400. Molecular Biology (5)
  3. A minimum of five units chosen from:
    • BIOL 423. Genetics (5)
    • BIOL 424. Comparative Animal Physiology (6)
    • BIOL 431. Comparative Plant Physiology (6)
    • BIOL 440. Principles of Development (5)
    • BIOL 450. Ecology (5)
    • BIOL 455. Marine Biology and Ecology (5)
  4. CHEM 436A. Biochemistry I: Lecture (4)
  5. CHEM 436B. Biochemistry I: Laboratory (1)
  6. Five units chosen from:
  7. CHEM 451. Physical Chemistry for Biochemists I (5)
  8. CHEM 455. Physical Chemistry I (5)
  9. CSE 330. Data Structures (4)
  10. CSE 431. Algorithm Analysis (4)
  11. CSE 500. Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata (4)
  12. CSE 535. Numerical Computation (4)
  13. CSE 550. Advanced Bioinformatics I: Sequence Analysis (4)
  14. CSE 551. Advanced Bioinformatics II: Numerical Modeling (4)
  15. CSE 572. Database Systems (4)
  16. MATH 372. Combinatorics (4)

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