Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics

The Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics is ONLY for Students Currently Enrolled in Graduate Programs at UGA.

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