Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Bioinformatics at Case Western Reserve University |
Case Western Reserve University
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Case Western Reserve University is a Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above Research Universities (very high research activity) with 9,844 students in Cleveland, OH.
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This school offers the following degree levels:
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Case Western Reserve University
Bachelor degree
Computer Science
Bioinformatics
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Computer Science (CS) majors can use their electives to form concentrations in areas related to CS. The BS/CS program has 5 technical electives and 4 open electives and the BA/CS program has many more electives which gives the student considerable flexibility. This document lists a number of possible concentration areas together with courses in each area. Some of these courses are required for CS majors because they need at least some background in many of the listed areas. Taking additional courses in an area will give them additional background in the area. Normally a student will not take all of the courses listed for an area, but rather only those courses which best meet his/her educational objectives. Thus, this document is intended to help CS majors formulate programs of study that will meet their education objectives, recognizing that these objectives may change as students progress though the programs.
Bioinformatics
Recently there has been an explosion of available biological data which has been stored in various data repositories; e. g., human genome data. Although this data is very useful for biomedical research, both basic and applied, special tools are needed to organize and access the data because of its sheer volume and unconventional structure; database management techniques by themselves are not adequate. Bioinformatics is concerned with the development of algorithms and computer systems that will enable biomedical researchers to explore the data in these repositories in order to find the data which is needed for their research, as well as to filter out data which is not relevant.
Research in bioinformatics requires at lease some background in both computer science and biology. Relevant CS courses are
EECS 340 Algorithms & Data Structures (Required)
EECS 341 Introduction to Database Systems (Required)
EECS 366/466 Computer Graphics
EECS 405 Data Structures & File Management
EECS 433 Database Systems
EECS 435 Data Mining
EECS 454 Analysis of Algorithms
EECS 458 Introduction to Bioinformatics
Relevant Biology/Biochemistry courses are listed below. Three of the technical electives for the BS/CS program can come from this list. A student can get a Minor in Biology by taking BIOL 214, BIOL 215, BIOL 216 and 2 biology electives.
BIOL 214 Genes and Evolution
BIOL 215 Cells and Proteins
BIOL 216 Organisms and Ecosystems
CHEM 223 Introductory Organic Chemistry I
BIOL 250 Introduction to Cell Molecular Biological Systems
BIOL 300 Dynamics of Biological Systems
BIOC 307 General Biochemistry
BIOC/BIOL 308 Molecular Biology: Genes and Genetic Engineering
BIOL 316 Fundamental Immunology
BIOL 325 Cell Biology
BIOL 326 Genetics
BIOL 328 Plant Genomics and Proteomics
BIOL 334 Structural Biology of Proteins, Enzymes, and Nucleic Acids
BIOL 343 Microbiology
BIOL 364 Endocrinology
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