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Concentration in Informatics in Biology & Medicine (IBAM), (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Informatics in Biology and Medicine is an interdisciplinary concentration at the interface between computer sciences, biological sciences, and medicine. more »
- Fall 2003 - Spring 2009 Degree Requirements
- Fall 2002 - Spring 2003 Degree Requirements
- Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 Degree Requirements
All courses must be passed with a grade of B or better.
- ICS 200: Seminar in Research in ICS (2 units)
- One course from Theory selected from:
- One course from Architecture/CAD/Hardware selected from:
- One course in Software and Systems selected from:
- Required:
- Select four from the following (16 units):
- INF 231: Human-Computer Interaction
- INF 233: Knowledge-based User Interfaces
- CS 221: Information Retrieval, Filtering and Classification
- CS 224: Advanced Topics in Data Management
- INF 235: Advanced User Interface Architecture
- INF 263: Computerization, Work and Organizations
- CS 266: Computational Geometry
- CS 273A: Machine Learning
- CS 274A: Probabilistic Learning: Theory and Algorithms
- CS 276: Network-based Reasoning/Belief Networks
- CS 281: Neural Networks
- CS 284B: Probabilistic Modeling of Biological Data
- CS 277: Data Mining
- CS 295: Special topics taught by one of the faculty in this area (only one 295 course counts toward the advanced topics requirement)
- Select two (8 units) from the following (NOTE: Upon petition, an undergraduate course may be substituted for one of these interdisciplinary graduate-level courses.):
- BME 221 Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems
- Environmental Health, Science and Policy E226: Environmental Health Sciences III: Epidemiology
- MGMT 283: Decision Analysis
- Eco Evo Bio 251 Population Dynamics in Ecology, Epidemiology and Medicine
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 203: Structure and Biosynthesis of Nucleic Acids
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 204 Protein Structure and Function
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 240: Macromolecular Structure, Function, and Interaction
*NOTE: M.S. students pursuing a Thesis Option must substitute two 4-unit courses of INF 298 or CS 298.
Ph.D. Paper Requirement: Each student must write a survey paper and a research paper of publishable quality, and pass a comphrehensive examination prior to advancing to candidacy.
All courses must be passed with a grade of B or better. M.S. and Ph.D. course requirements for each concentration are listed below.
- One course from Theory selected from:
- One course from Architecture/CAD/Hardware selected from:
- One course in Software and Systems selected from:
*NOTE: M.S. students pursuing a Thesis Option must substitute two 4-unit courses of ICS 298.
Ph.D. Paper Requirement: Each student must write a survey paper and a research paper of publishable quality.
- Required:
- *Select four from the following (16 units):
- INF 231: Human-Computer Interaction
- INF 233: Knowledge-based User Interfaces
- CS 221: Information Retrieval, Filtering and Classification
- CS 224: Advanced Topics in Data Management
- INF 235: Advanced User Interface Architecture
- INF 263: Computerization, Work and Organizations
- CS 266: Computational Geometry
- CS 273A: Machine Learning
- CS 274A: Probabilistic Learning: Theory and Algorithms
- CS 276: Network-based Reasoning/Belief Networks
- CS 281: Neural Networks
- CS 284B: Probabilistic Modeling of Biological Data
- CS 277: Data Mining
- CS 295: Special topics taught by one of the faculty in this area (only one 280 course counts toward the advanced topics requirement)
- Select two (8 units) (NOTE: Upon petition, an undergraduate course may be substituted for one of these interdisciplinary graduate-level courses.):
- BME 221: Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems
- Environmental Health, Science and Policy E226: Environmental Health Sciences III: Epidemiology
- MGMTMBA 283: Decision Analysis
- Eco Evo Bio 251 Population Dynamics in Ecology, Epidemiology and Medicine
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 203: Structure and Biosynthesis of Nucleic Acids
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 204 Protein Structure and Function
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 240: Macromolecular Structure, Function, and Interaction
- Breadth (12 units):
- 3 additional courses from the ICS core requirement section (see above).
All courses must be passed with a grade of B or better. M.S. and Ph.D. course requirements for each concentration are listed below.
- One course from Theory selected from:
- One course from Architecture/CAD/Hardware selected from:
- One course in Software and Systems selected from:
*NOTE: M.S. students pursuing a Thesis Option must substitute two 4-unit courses of ICS 298.
Ph.D. Paper Requirement: Each student must write a survey paper and a research paper of publishable quality.
- Required:
- *Select four from the following (16 units):
- INF 231: Human-Computer Interaction
- INF 233: Knowledge-based User Interfaces
- CS 221: Information Retrieval, Filtering and Classification
- CS 224: Advanced Topics in Data Management
- INF 235: Advanced User Interface Architecture
- INF 263: Computerization, Work and Organizations
- CS 266: Computational Geometry
- CS 273A: Machine Learning
- CS 274A: Probabilistic Learning: Theory and Algorithms
- CS 276: Network-based Reasoning/Belief Networks
- CS 281: Neural Networks
- CS 284B: Probabilistic Modeling of Biological Data
- CS 277: Data Mining
- CS 295: Special topics taught by one of the faculty in this area (only one 280 course counts toward the advanced topics requirement)
- Select two (8 units) (NOTE: Upon petition, an undergraduate course may be substituted for one of these interdisciplinary graduate-level courses.):
- BME 221 Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems
- Soc Ecol 226: Environmental Health Sciences III : Biostatisitcs & Epidemiology Decision Analysis
- BUS 283: Molecular Evolutionary Methods
- Eco Evo Bio 251 Population Dynamics in Ecology, Epidemiology and Medicine
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 203: Structure and Biosynthesis of Proteins
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 204 Protein Structure and Function
- Molecular Bio & Biochem 240 Physiology & Biophysics 202: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
- Breadth (12 units):
- 3 additional courses from the ICS core requirement section (see above).
Biology and medicine have become data-intensive information sciences. Massive data acquisition technologies, such as genome sequencing, high-throughput drug screening, and DNA arrays, generate biological information in quantities that overwhelm conventional approaches.
Cost-effective health care and quality medical decision-making require integrating large amounts of up-to-date information and knowledge.
Biological systems have also inspired computer science advances with new concepts, including genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, computer viruses and synthetic immune systems, DNA computing, artificial life, and hybrid VLSI-DNA gene chips.
New computational opportunities such as these create a critical need for theoretical and algorithmic advances in storing, retrieving, networking, processing, analyzing, and visualizing biomedical information.
Informatics in Biology and Medicine is an interdisciplinary concentration at the interface between computer sciences, biological sciences, and medicine. It addresses problems that are specific to the information technologies in biology, medicine, and health care.
Research topics include gene finding, protein structure and function prediction, structural and functional genomics, proteomics, electronic patient record systems, medical decision support systems, guideline-based health care, medical information access, and human-computer interfaces for medical applications.
To make advances in these areas, society needs people with knowledge and skills that bridge those taught in conventional biological, medical, and computer science curricula. This area provides for such an interdisciplinary computer science education.
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