BSc Bioinformatics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

These two areas combined form an exciting, innovative and future-oriented field of research. This study programme trains you to become specialists who are competent in two areas at the same time: After all, bioinformaticians speak both the language of computer science and that of the life sciences in order to solve problems with computer-assisted methods. What is best: They can mediate between precisely these two fields and establish connections.

Faculty: Faculty of Biological Sciences  |  Department: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science  |  Duration: 6 semesters (180 ECTS)  |  Study mode: full-time or part-time; German-taught  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Location: Jena, Thüringen, Germany

What you will study

Modules include Introduction to Bioinformatics I; Computability and Complexity; Proseminar Bioninformatics; Project Data Mining and Sequence Analysis; Proseminar Bioinformatics; Structural Programming; Introduction to Bioninformatics II; Introduction to Genetics; Practical course Molecular Biology; Linear Algebra.

Career pathways

Graduates work in areas such as sequence and genome analysis; databases; software development; data analysis; modelling and simulation; systems biology; research (usually after completing a doctorate).

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