A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.
Program
- Award
- Bioinformatics Minor for Biology/Biotechnology Majors
- CIP
- 27.0102
- Total credits (published)
- 18-20
- Catalog edition
- 2026-2027 Catalog
- Checklist type
- degree-program
- Description
- The purpose of this interdisciplinary minor is to prepare students to enter the computer-intensive fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computational chemistry, and molecular modeling, including genomics and proteomics. With the ever-increasing number of fully sequenced genomes, including the human genome, biological databases have grown at such a rate that storing, organizing, indexing, and ultimately mining the data have become key to answering biological questions. The methodologies of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics analyze genome structures, patterns of gene expression, and protein structure and function, respectively. Information obtained by computational biology and computational chemistry is used in the design of new drugs to treat a variety of diseases. Major drug and biotechnology companies are eager to hire people trained in the combination of biology and computer science skills that this minor provides.
Identifiers
- IPEDS UNITID
- 168430
- CourseShelf checklist
- CK_168430_8c921545
- CollegeTransfer.Net
- Institution Transfer Profile
- Source
- CourseShelf publish 61
Requirements to complete
Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.
Program Requirements
19 items
- As published: “Programming for Non-CS Majors”3
- As published: “Bioinformatics (can double count as an upper-level elective or the major.)”4
- Research/Internship in BioinformaticsNot resolved to a course2-3
- Electives - take 3 courses (only one BI/BT course which will not double count in the major)Not resolved to a course9-10
- As published: “Selected Topics: Biological Sciences (as approved by the Biology Chair)”
- As published: “Probability and Statistics (can substitute for MA-150 as ancillary requirement for the major)”
Source. Worcester State University, catalog 2026-2027 Catalog — https://catalog.worcester.edu/undergraduate/school-education-health-natural-sciences/biology/minor-bioinformatics-for-biology-majors/. Captured page pages/0028.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.