Curriculum
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Recommended bioinformatics curriculum
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Background topics
Knowledge from other fields that form the basis for bioinformatics
Biology
- Genetics
- Cell biology
- Chromosome structure
- Molecular cell biology
- Protein signalling pathways
- Biochemical techniques
- Sequencing
Computer science
- Programming (importantly: C, Python and/or Perl)
- Algorithms
- Database management systems (DBMSs)
Mathematics (beyond calculus)
- Linear algebra
- Basic and multivariate statistics (with R programming)
- Numerical analysis
Bioinformatics topics
Bioinformatics topics can include those from informatics, computational biology, genomics, etc.
Core topics
- Sequence analysis
- NGS data analysis
- Gene prediction
- Functional annotation
- Protein domains, structure, function, and evolution
Advanced computing
- High performance computing (HPC)
- Machine learning
- Big Data
- Semantic searches and natural language processing (NLP)
Medical informatics
- Disease loci in the human genome
- Genomes of infectious disease vectors
- Personalized medicine
- $1,000 genome
- Biology and the bedside
- Cancer informatics
- Microbial informatics
