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Education Bioinformatics is an exciting and rapidly emerging field that requires multi-disciplinary study. At Carleton University the Department of Biology offers a Bioinformatics Program, the College of Natural Sciences offers programs in the Computational Sciences including Computational Biology, Computational Biochemistry, and Computational Chemistry, while the School of Computer Science offers a Biomedical Computing Stream. Research Courses If you're interested in undertaking bioinformatics research, check to see whether you are eligible to take any of the following research courses. Take a look at the recruitment presentation (0.6MB). Please contact me after you've looked at how to apply. See the objectives, guidelines, and evaluation criteria for directed studies and for the honors thesis. Download the the MS word templates for progress reports and final reports. BIOC 2400 [0.5 credit]: new! Independent Research I BIOC 3400 [0.5 credit]: new! Independent Research II BIOC 4906 [1.0 credit]: new! Interdisciplinary Research Project BIOL 4900 [1.0 credit]: Biology Directed Special Studies and Seminar BIOL 4901 [0.5 credit]: Biology Directed Special Studies BIOL 4908 [1.0 credit]: Biology Honours Research Thesis BIOC 4907 [1.0 credit]: Biochemistry Honours Essay and Research Proposal BIOC 4908 [1.0 credit]: Biochemistry Research Project CHEM 4908 [1.0 credit]: Chemistry Research Project and Seminar CMPS 4909 [1.0 credit]: Computational Science Honours Research Thesis COMP 4901 [0.5 credit]: Computer Science Directed Studies COMP 4905 [0.5 credit]: Computer Science Honours Research Thesis SYSC 4907 [0.5 credit]: Engineering Project Undergraduate Courses BIOC 3008\|COMP 3308 [0.5 credit]: *Bioinformatics* A practical exploration in the application of information technology to biochemistry and molecular biology. Insight into biological knowledge discovery via molecular structure and function prediction, comparative genomics and biological information management. Prerequisites: BIOC 2200 or BIOL 2200; or permission of the Institute. Lecture 1.5 hours a week, computer workshop 3 hours a week. [Fall 2011] [2009] [2008] [2007] [2006] BIOC 4008\|COMP 4308 [0.5 credit]: new!Computational Systems Biology Modeling and simulation of metabolic and regulatory networks towards understanding complex and highly dynamic cellular systems. Biotechnological applications include metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and drug discovery. Prerequisites: BIOC 3101 Lecture 1.5 hours per week, workshop 1.5 hours a week. [Winter 2011] [2008] [2007] BIOC 3101 [0.5 credit]: *General Biochemistry I* Chemistry, structure and function of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Monomers, linkages and types of biochemical polymers that are formed. Mechanism of action of enzymes, regulatory control mechanisms of proteins and integration of biochemical pathways. Prerequisites: CHEM 2203 and CHEM 2204; BIOC 2200, or permission of the Institute. Lecture 3 hours per week, optional tutorial. [Fall 2010] [2009] [2008] Graduate Courses BIOL 5515 [0.5 credit]: *Bioinformatics* Major concepts and methods of bioinformatics. Topics may include, but are not limited to genetics, statistics and probability theory, alignments, phylogenetics, genomics, data mining, protein structure, cell simulation and computing. [2009] [2008] [2007] BIOL 5516 [0.5 credit]: *Applied Bioinformatics* This course explores the dynamic nature of cellular networks and includes aspects of knowledge representation and reasoning, integrative systems biology, cell simulation and drug discovery. The graduate course version of BIOC4008 in which two additional requirements must be met: 1) lead a lecture and 2) produce a workshop quality publication from the project component of the course. [Winter 2011] [2008] BIOL 5517 [0.5 credit]: *Bioinformatics Seminar* Current topics in bioinformatics. Students must will present a research seminar and a journal paper review. [2010] [2009] For additional training opportunities, check the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops.
Michel Dumontier, Ph.D. Carleton University michel_dumontier [at] carleton [dot] ca