Candidates entering with a Bachelor’s Degree need satisfactory completion of  37 credit hours of graduate courses as approved by the Program Director.

 A. Major Field Core (13 credit hours):

• BINF 7980 Research Seminar in Bioinformatics
• COMP 6030 Introduction to Algorithms or COMP 7712 Algorithms Implementation and Problem Solving
• COMP 7295 Introduction to Bioinformatics
• MATH 6635 Introduction to Probability Theory
• MATH 7643 Least/Sq Regr/Analysis

B. Biology: 6 credit hours chosen from:

• BIOL 7131 Cell and Molecular Biology
• BIOL 7440 Molecular Biology of Cancer
• BIOL 7470 Advanced Bacterial Genetics
• BINF 7701 Introduction to Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• BIOM 7004 Life Sciences for Biomedical Engineering I

C. Electives: 9-15 credit hours chosen from:

• BIOL 6480 Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
• BIOL 7704 Problems in Genome Science
• BIOM 7110 Biostatistics
• CHEM 6415 Computational Chemistry
• CHEM 7711 Approximate Chemical Modeling Methods
• COMP 6014 Intro to Java Programming
• COMP 6081 Software Development
• COMP 6262 Programming in UNIX
• COMP 6601 Models of Computation
• COMP 7012 Foundation of Software Eng
• COMP 7115 Database Systems
• COMP 7116 Advanced Database Systems
• COMP 7117 Topics in Database Management Systems
• COMP 7118 Data Mining
• COMP 7212 Operating & Distributed Systems
• COMP 7282 Evolutionary Computations
• COMP 7290 Molecular Computing
• COMP 7612 Foundations of Computing
• COMP 7717 Topics in Algorithm
• COMP 7740 Neural Networks
• COMP 7780 Natural Lang Processing
• MATH 6607 Introduction to SAS Programming
• MATH 6636 Intro Statistical Theory
• MATH 7221 Stat Gene Expression
• MATH 7607 Adv Prog in SAS
• MATH 7641 Analysis of Variance
• MATH 7642 Design of Experiments
• MATH 7647 Nonparametric Methods
• MATH 7657 Multivariate Methods
• MATH 7660 Applied Time Series Analysis
• MATH 7680 Bayesian Inference
• MATH 7685 Statistical Computing and Simulation
• MATH 7695 Bootstrap and Other Resampling Methods
• MIS 7605 Bus Database Sys

Candidates may choose to focus on statistics or computer science by selecting from a large number of graduate classes offered in the respective departments as approved by the Program Director.  Please refer to the Graduate Catalog http://memphis.edu/gradcatalog/ for degree plan specifications and http://www.memphis.edu/gradcatalog/deg_req/masters.php for minimum requirements for Master's Degree.

D. Thesis or Project

Candidates may choose to write and defend a thesis project. These candidates must complete the following classes:

•  BINF 7996 Thesis or BINF 7992 Bioinformatics Project

For more information, visit http://cas.memphis.edu/binf or contact the Bioinformatics Director: Dr. Ramin Homayouni, Bioinformatics@memphis.edu.