Bioinformatics

This Bioinformatics course offered by University of Birmingham will place you at the forefront of the recent genomics and bioinformatics revolution as you’ll develop sought-after skills in statistics, computer programming and molecular biology. Help shape the future of one of the fastest-growing fields in industry and academia.

Biology is now driven be data and computational methods are essential for uniting, scrutinising, and comprehending both fresh and reused biological data. The approaches you'll learn will enable you to extract valuable insights and achieve scientific breakthroughs from the vast amount and variety of available data.

You’ll learn to analyse different types of omics data, including next generation sequencing, mass spectrometry, emerging single molecule techniques, genome engineering, imaging and integrative analysis toolsets.

Career opportunities

Lead the future of healthcare innovation. The Bioinformatics degree is ideal for 'wet-bench' biologists and clinicians interested in data analysis, as well as statisticians or computer scientists wishing to work in biology.

After graduation, our students have pursed PhD studies or research roles in pharmaceutical companies, government institutions and medical publications. Other career options include bioinformatician, pharmaceutical scientist, biostatistician, medical data scientist, and medical AI architect.

Courses include:

• Bioinformatics Group Project: Growth of an Idea

• Bioinformatics Group Project: Seed of an Idea

• Computational Biology for Complex Systems

• Data Analytics and Statistical Machine Learning

• Genomics & Next Generation Sequencing