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Bioinformatics - BINFA13715

Stream Summary

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

Schools:

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Contact: www.cse.unsw.edu.au

Program: 3715 - Engineering/Commerce

Award(s):

Bachelor of Engineering (Major)

Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions

Stream Outline

Day to day administration of this part of the program is conducted through the Computer Science and Engineering Student Office, to which enquiries should be directed.

The stages of the program are shown below. It should be noted that it is possible to adapt the program by moving courses, subject to prerequisite requirements. Approval should be obtained for changes.

Stream Structure

Year 1

BABS1201 Molecules, Cells and Genes (6 UOC)
BINF1001 Bioinformatics 1 (6 UOC)
COMP1917 Computing 1 (6 UOC)
COMP1927 Computing 2 (6 UOC)

And ONE of:

CHEM1011 Fundamentals of Chem 1A (6 UOC)
CHEM1031 Higher Chemistry 1C (6 UOC)

And ONE of:

CHEM1021 Fundamentals of Chem 1B (6 UOC)
CHEM1041 Higher Chemistry 1D (6 UOC)

And ONE of:

MATH1131 Mathematics 1A (6 UOC)
MATH1141 Higher Mathematics 1A (6 UOC)

And ONE of:

MATH1231 Mathematics 1B (6 UOC)
MATH1241 Higher Mathematics 1B (6 UOC)

Year 2

COMP2911 Eng. Design in Computing (6 UOC)
ENGG1000 Engineering Design (6 UOC)
MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics (6 UOC)

And ONE of:

MATH2801 Theory of Statistics (6 UOC)
MATH2901 Higher Theory of Statistics (6 UOC)

And ONE of:

BABS2202 Molecular Cell Biology 1 (6 UOC)
BIOC2101 Principles of Biochem (Adv) (6 UOC)
BIOS2021 Genetics (6 UOC)
BIOS2621 Genetics (Advanced Level) (6 UOC)
MICR2011 Microbiology 1 (6 UOC)

Plus:

Commerce Electives (18UOC)

Year 3

BIOC2201 Principles of Mol. Biol (Adv) (6 UOC)
COMP2041 Software Construction (6 UOC)
COMP4920 Management and Ethics (6 UOC)

And ONE of the following that has not already been completed:

BABS2202 Molecular Cell Biology 1 (6 UOC)
BIOC2101 Principles of Biochem (Adv) (6 UOC)
BIOS2021 Genetics (6 UOC)
BIOS2621 Genetics (Advanced Level) (6 UOC)
MICR2011 Microbiology 1 (6 UOC)

Plus:

Commerce Electives (24 UOC)

Year 4

BABS3121 Molec Biol of Nucleic Acids (6 UOC)
BINF3010 Bioinformatics Methods & Apps (6 UOC)
BINF3020 Computational Bioinformatics (6 UOC)
COMP3311 Database Systems (6 UOC)

Plus:

Commerce Electives (24 UOC)

Year 5

COMP3121 Algorithms & Programming Tech (6 UOC)
COMP4930 Thesis Part A (6 UOC)
COMP4931 Thesis Part B (6 UOC)

Plus:

Life Sciences Electives (6 UOC)
Computing/Mathematics Electives (12 UOC)
Computing/Mathematics/Life Science Electives (6UOC)
Commerce Electives (6UOC)

Year 6

Commerce Electives (24 UOC)

ELECTIVES

Any BIOC/BIOT/MICR/BABS3xxx course for which prerequisites have been completed can be selected as a 3rd year life science elective. Recommended electives include:

BABS3031 Biotechnology & Bioengineering (6 UOC)
BABS3061 Medical Biotechnology (6 UOC)
BABS3281 Molecular Genomics (6 UOC)
BABS3291 Genes, Genomes & Evolution (6 UOC)
BIOC3111 Molecular Biology of Proteins (6 UOC)
BIOC3151 Human Genetics and Variation (6 UOC)

Any COMP2xxx or COMP3xxx course for which prerequisites have been completed can be selected as a 3rd year Computing elective. Recommended electives include:

COMP2121 Microprocessors & Interfacing (6 UOC)
COMP3111 Software Engineering (6 UOC)
COMP3231 Operating Systems (6 UOC)
COMP3331 Computer Networks&Applications (6 UOC)
COMP3411 Artificial Intelligence (6 UOC)
COMP3431 Robotic Software Architecture (6 UOC)

Alternatively one of the following MATH courses can be chosen instead of a Computing Elective:

Any Level 3/4/9 COMP course for which prerequisites have been completed can be selected as computing elective. The computing elective can also be replaced by one of the following Mathematics and Statistics course: