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Available in Program(s)
Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Bachelor of Science and Business - BSc&Bus3925 - Science and Business
Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours) - BAdvSci(Hons)3962 - Advanced Science (Honours)
Bachelor of Science - BSc3970 - Science
Bachelor of Science (International) - BSc(International)3987 - Science (International)

Specialisation Structure
96 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 96 UOC.

Level 1 Core Courses

Students must take 42 UOC of the following courses.

BABS1201
6 UOC
Molecules, Cells and Genes
COMP1511
6 UOC
Programming Fundamentals
COMP2521
6 UOC
Data Structures and Algorithms

Level 2 Core Courses

Students must take 30 UOC of the following courses.

BINF2010
6 UOC
Introduction to Bioinformatics
BIOC2101
6 UOC
Principles of Biochemistry (Advanced)
BIOC2201
6 UOC
Principles of Molecular Biology (Advanced)
COMP2041
6 UOC
Software Construction: Techniques and Tools

Level 3 Core Courses

Students must take 24 UOC of the following courses.

BABS3281
6 UOC
Molecular Frontiers
BINF3010
6 UOC
Applied Bioinformatics
BABS3121
6 UOC
Molecular Biology of Nucleic Acids

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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.

Additional Information

  1. To continue in this major students are required to get a credit or higher in MATH1031 Mathematics for Life Sciences. Where students do not meet this requirement they will need to consider undertaking a different major within their Science program. Advice on related majors can be received from staff in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science.
  2. Students considering transferring to the 3707 Bachelor of Engineering in Bioinformatics Engineering, should enrol in MATH1131 (or MATH1141) and MATH1231 (or MATH1241) otherwise they will be ineligible for full credit on transfer to the Engineering program.

Honours

For further information on Honours in Bioinformatics, please see staff in either the School of Computer Science and Engineering (for research focused more primarily on the computational side of Bioinformatics), or the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science (for research focused more primarily on the biology aspect of Bioinformatics).

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