M.S./Bioinformatics Computer Science Coursework

Students must take one four hour course in each of the following two areas (additional courses in each area may be added later):

Database and Information Systems

CS 411 Database Systems

Combinatorial Algorithms

CS 473 Algorithms

Students must take and additional 12 hours of computer science graduate level courses (the following are especially recommended):

CS Electives

CS 420 Introduction to Parallel Programming
CS 427/428 Software Engineering I and II
CS 446 Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
CS 450 Numerical Analysis: A Comprehensive Introduction
CS 476 Program Verification
CS 511 Design of Database Management Systems
CS 512 Data Mining
CS 519 Scientific Visualization
CS 554 Parallel Numerical Algorithms