Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics

Graduate students in any department at UGA can receive the Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics by taking bioinformatics coursework. Students seeking a Certificate must be currently enrolled and in good standing in a graduate program at the University of Georgia, Athens.

The requirements for the certificate in Bioinformatics are:

  1. BINF 8211E: “Advanced Methods for Biological Data Analyses” or BINF 8940E “Applied Genome Analysis”
  2. One of the following:
    • BINF 8441: “Statistical Inference for the Life Sciences”
    • EPID(BIOS) 8060(E): “Modern Applied Data Analysis”
    • STAT 6315(E): “Statistical Methods for Researchers”
  3. One of the following:
    • BINF 8006: “Programming and Data Structures for Bioinformatics”
    • BINF 8550: “Python Programming for Bioinformatics”
    • INFO 8000: “Foundations of Informatics for Research and Practice”
    • STAT 6365: “Modern Statistical Programming”
    • any 3- or 4- credit hour 7000- or 8000-level course offered by computer science (CSCI prefix)
  4. At least one additional 3- or 4- credit graduate-level course with BINF prefix
  5. At least one additional 3- or 4-credit graduate-level course in biology