Charles V. Schaefer, Jr.
    School of Engineering and Science
 

B.S. in Chemical Biology - Concentration in Bioinformatics

Huge amounts of data are being generated by the new and powerful techniques of determining the structures of biological molecules and manipulating biomolecular sequences. Bioinformatics makes use of mathematical and computer science techniques to process the information that is pouring out of laboratories so it can be used for further scientific advances. The Stevens Bioinformatics Program is built on the foundations of Chemical Biology. After the first two years in the Chemical Biology Program, the Bioinformatics student begins replacing certain electives with mathematics and computer science courses, provided that CS 115 is taken in the freshman year.

The Third and Fourth Years of the Bioinformatics concentration are given below:

Junior Year
TERM V Hours  
Class Lab Cred
Hu Humanities 3 0 3
CS 284 Data Structures & Algorithms I 3 0 3
Ch 484 Intro. to Molecular Genetics 3 3 4
Ch 421 Chemical Dynamics 3 4 4
Ch 362 Instrum. Analysis I 3 4 4
PE 200 Phys Ed V 0 2 1
TOTALS 15 13 19
   
TERM VI Hours  
Class Lab Cred
Hu Humanities 3 0 3
PEP 242 Modern Physics 3 0 3
Ma 222 Prob. & Statisitcs 3 0 3
Ch 461 Instrum. Analysis II 3 4 4
Ch 580 Biochemistry I 3 0 3
PE 200 Phys Ed VI 0 2 1
TOTALS 15 6 17


Senior Year
TERM VII Hours  
Class Lab Cred
Hu Humanities 3 0 3
Ch 583 Physiology 3 0 3
Ma 134 Discrete Mathematics 3 0 3
CS 385 Data Structures and Algorithms II 3 0 3
Mgt 244 Microeconomics 3 0 3
Ch 681 Biochemistry II 3 0 3
TOTALS 18 0 18
   
TERM VIII Hours  
Class Lab Cred
Hu Humanities 3 0 3
Ch 668 Computational Biology* 3 0 3
CS 442 Database Management Systems 3 4 4
Ch 582 Biophysical Chemistry 3 0 3
Ch 686 Immunology 3 0 3
Ch 497/9 Project / Research ** 0 8 3
TOTALS 15 8 18

With the approval of the advisor
**  For American Chemical Society certification, Ch 412 is required

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