Graduate
Studies
If you’re
interested in graduate school and employment in the field of bioinformatics,
you should know the following:
Many companies as of 2001 are more interested
in people who have a background and practical experience more to the computer
side of bioinformatics. They feel that
they can teach these computer people the biology behind the field as they
go. A GREAT article to check out
regarding employment is in the Chemistry and Engineering News (aka C&EN)
January 1, 2001 Employment section (p.47-55). It interviews employers like Celera Genomics (who recently
published their sequenced human Genome in Science) and PPGx (a
pharmicogenomics company) and a list of schools, which can also be found below
on this page.
Check out our link to good web search engines for
employment in the field.
The following institutions have listed study programs in
Bioinformatics on their websites.
Boston
University
M.S.
and Ph.D. programs www.bu.edu/bioinformatics
Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh
B.S.
degree program in computational biology www.bio.cmu.edu/Programs/Undergraduate/compbio.html
George
Mason University
Ph.D. in computational
sciences and informatics programs www.scs.gmu.edu/Academics/PHD.html or Master’s degree in professional studies
in bioinformatics www.gmu.edu/departments/Biology/bioinformatics.htm
Georgia
Institute of Technology
Ph.D. and professional
master’s degree programs
http://www.biology.gatech.edu/bioinformatics/
Johns
Hopkins University
Ph.D. through Institute
for Biophysics Research www.jhu.edu/~ibr/bwf.html
Keck
Graduate Institute
Claremont, CA masters degree program in applied bioscience
www.kgi.edu
Oregon Health Sciences University
M.S.
in Medical Informatics www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/ms/
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY B.S., M.S., or Ph.D.
programs in bioinformatics and molecular biology www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/info/bioinformatics.html
Stanford
University
M.S. and Ph.D. programs
in medical informational sciences
www-smi.stanford.edu/
University
of California, Irvine
M.S.
and Ph.D. programs in biomedical bioinformatics www.ics.uci.edu/~biomed/
University
of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. and undergraduate
degree programs www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu
University
of California, San Francisco
M.S. and Ph.D. programs
in biological and medical informatics www.mis.ucsf.edu
University
of Nebraska Medical and Center
and University of Nebraska, Omaha
M.S. and Ph.D. programs www.isqa.unomaha.edu/bioinformatics
University
of Pennsylvania
B.S.(through Biology,
Computer Science or Mathematics departments), M.S. and Ph.D. programs in
computational biology www.pcbi.upenn.edu/
University
of Southern California
M.S. and Ph.D. programs
in computational molecular biology www-hto.usc.edu/
University
of Washington and Fred Hutchenson
Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Graduate
programs in computational molecular biology http://bozeman.genome.washington.edu/compbio
W.M.
Keck Center for Advanced Training in Computational Biology