Future Undergraduates

BINFA13647 - BE Bioinformatics

This advice is for the revised BE (Bioinformatics) degree. Students who commenced earlier than 2012 should follow this advice where possible and consult the UNSW Handbook for the year they commenced if this is not possible.

Students who are unsure about how the program revision will affect them should contact the CSE Student Office (undergrad at cse . unsw . edu . au).

Program Structure

Bioinformatics graduates receive a Bachelor of Engineering after four years. The program is multi-disciplinary and students will achieve a high level of expertise across computing, maths and biology. Students will undertake major project in the fourth year bringing these areas together.

UOC denotes Units of Credit, a measure of the amount of work required in a course.

YEAR 1   S1 UOC S2 UOC
COMP1917 Computing 1 6  
COMP1927 Computing 2 - 6
MATH1131
MATH1141		 Mathematics 1A or
Higher Mathematics 1A		 6 -
MATH1231
MATH1241 		Mathematics 1B or
Higher Mathematics 1B		 - 6
BABS1201 Molecules, Cells & Genes 6 -
CHEM1011
CHEM1031		 Chemistry A or
Higher Chemistry A		 6 -
CHEM1021
CHEM1041		 Chemistry B or
Higher Chemistry B		 - 6
BINF1001 Bioinformatics 1 - 6
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* CHEM1031 is appropriate for those who have 75-100 in 2U Chemistry or equivalent.

YEAR 2   S1 UOC S2 UOC
COMP2911 Engineering Design 2 6 -
ENGG1000 Engineering Design             6
BIOC2101
BIOS2021
BIOS2621
MICR2011
BABS2202		 Principles of Biochemistry (Advanced)
Genetics or
Genetics (Advanced)
Microbiology 1
Cell Biology		 - 12
MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics - 6
COMP2041 Software Construction: Techniques and Tools - 6
BIOC2201 Principles of Mol. Biol 6 -
MATH2901
MATH 2801		 Higher Theory of Statistics or
Theory of Statistics		 6 -
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It is recommended that students start thinking about Industrial Training in the summer after Year 2 and Year 3. Graduation may be delayed if a satisfactory report for 60 day industrial training has not been received by the release of final year results.

YEAR 3   S1 UOC S2 UOC
BABS3121 Molecular Biology of Nucleic Acids 6 -
BINF3010 Bioinformatics Methods & Applications 6 -
BINF3020 Computational Bioinformatics - 6
COMP3121 Algorithms & Programming Techniques 6 -
COMP3311 Database Systems - 6
  Life Sciences Elective - 6
  COMP/MATH Elective  -  6
  Free Elective 6 -
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YEAR 4   S1 UOC S2 UOC
COMP4930 Thesis A 6 -
COMP4931 Thesis B - 6
COMP4920 Management & Ethics - 6
  Life Sciences Elective 6 -
  COMP/MATH Elective 6 -
  COMP/MATH/Life Science Elective 6 -
  General Education - 12
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CSE Course List

Computer science course list. Courses that do not have COMP0xxx or COMP1xxx course codes can be used as COMP electives.

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:

    UOC
BIOC3111 Molecular Biology of Proteins 6
BIOC3151 Human Genetics and Variation 6
BABS3281 Recombinant DNA Techniques 6
BABS3291 Genes, Genomes & Evolution 6
BABS3031 BiotechnologyA 6
BABS3061 Biopharmaceuticals 6

The computing elective can also be replaced by one of the following Mathematics and Statistics course:

    UOC
MATH2281 Biomathematics 6
MATH2831 Linear Models 6
MATH2931 Higher Linear Models 6
MATH3801 Probability & Schochastic Proc 6
MATH3901 Higher Probability & Schochastic Proc 6
MATH3811 Statistical Inference 6
MATH3911 Higher Statistical Inference 6

General Education 

UNSW wants all students to develop skills in a broad range of areas, not just in their specific study discipline, and so students in all degrees are required to undertake a number of general studies courses outside their discipline. Students should select courses from disciplines that are not available in their program as core or elective courses.

See UNSW on General Education for more information.

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