Academic Calendar 2005
(New Academic Choices)

This module concentrates on the computational aspects of bioinformatics, while at the same time providing students with enough background in the biosciences to appreciate the contexts in which computation is applied.

Completion of first-year requirements with no failures. Students must have an average of at least 70% in 4.0 principal courses, with no mark in these principal courses below 60%, including:

Biology 022 or 023
Chemistry 020 or Chemistry 023
Computer Science 025a/b or 026a/b or Engineering Science 036a/b or the former Computer Science 036a/b
Computer Science 027a/b or 037a/b, in either case with a mark of at least 65%
1.0 course from: Calculus 050a/b, 051a/b, 081a/b, 091a/b, Linear Algebra 040a/b, Applied Mathematics 026

Students taking this module must see a Departmental Counsellor in Computer Science for advice concerning the order in which courses have to be taken.

12.0 courses:

1.0 course: Biochemistry 280a, Biology 281b
0.5 course: Chemistry 213a/b
6.0 courses: Computer Science 208a/b, 209a/b, 210a/b, 211a/b, 212a/b/y, 305a/b, 319a/b, 331a/b, 340a/b, 460Z, 462a/b, 463a/b
1.0 course: Mathematics 222a, 223b
0.5 course from: Computer Science 307a/b/y, 346a/b
0.5 course from: Biochemistry 445F/G, Computer Science 461a/b
0.5 course from: Biology 290F/G, Chemistry 223b
0.5 course from: Biochemistry 381a, Biology 392a, 393G
1.0 course from: Computer Science 411a/b, 412a/b, 432a/b, 445a/b
0.5 course from: Statistical Sciences 222a/b, 241a/b, 257a, Biology 244a/b

*Chemistry 213a/b and 223b may be replaced in the module by Chemistry 273a and 283G or by the former 253.