Degree Plan 2009

Candidates entering with a Bachelor’s Degree need satisfactory completion of 37 credit hours of graduate courses as approved by the Program Director. Candidates entering with a Master’s Degree need satisfactory completion of 33 credit hours of graduate courses as approved by the Program Director. Candidates entering with a Ph.D. or currently enrolled in a Ph.D program need satisfactory completion of 30 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 7221 Statistical Methods for Analyzing Gene Expression Data

B. Biology: 6 credit hours chosen from:

• BIOL 7131 Cell and Molecular Biology
• BIOL 7470 Advanced Bacterial Genetics
• BINF 7701 Introduction to Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• BIOL 7703 Molecular Biology of Cancer
• BIOM 7004 Life Sciences for Biomedical Engineering I

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

• BIOL 6480 Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
• CHEM 6415 Computational Chemistry
• CHEM 7711 Approximate Chemical Modeling Methods
• COMP 6081 Software Development
• COMP 6262 Programming in UNIX
• COMP 6601 Models of Computation
• COMP 7115 Database Systems
• COMP 7116 Advanced Database Systems
• COMP 7117 Topics in Database Management Systems
• COMP 7118 Data Mining
• COMP 7282 Evolutionary Computations
• COMP 7290 Molecular Computing
• COMP 7717 Topics in Algorithm
• COMP 7740 Neural Networks
• MATH 6607 Introduction to SAS Programming
• MATH 7641 Analysis of Variance
• MATH 7642 Design of Experiments
• MATH 7643 Regression Analysis
• 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

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.  Refer to Graduate Catalog @  http://www.memphis.edu/gradcatalog/

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.