Bioinformatics is a major growth area and qualified Bioinformaticians are in high demand. An explosion in biological data has resulted from genome projects, next generation sequencing and other 'omics' techniques. Bioinformatics provides the tools to analyse and exploit such data sets.

Course aims

   The Bioinformatics course aims to enable biological sciences graduates to acquire bioinformatics skills for a career in the post-genomics era. The course caters specifically for biological sciences graduates.

Skills acquired

   Students acquire a firm grounding in computing and information management applied to proteins, genes and genome analysis.

Course organisation

    The course comprises taught modules and guided research, and culminates in a four-month project placement in industry, research institute or university research laboratory.