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Master Programme in Bioinformatics

Programme overview

  • Master's Programme, 2 Years, Full time
  • Code: NABIF
  • 120 credits
  • Lund Campus
  • Study period: 02 Sep 2013 – 05 Jun 2015

Bioinformatics is a broad subject in which biology, medicine, computer science and statistics intertwine. The basis for bioinformatics is the massive amount of biological sequence data derived from genomic studies and structural biology and stored in large databases. Computational biology also involves mathematical modelling of biological systems.

Special features of the programme:

  • A combination of advanced research with training of current techniques, as well as the development of novel software tools
  • Close connections to research in an international environment
  • Proteomics, genomics and transcriptomics data will be analysed and combined to gain a global understanding of an organism or groups of organisms.

Career prospects
Graduates have a diverse set of employers to choose between, both in industry as bioinformatics or biocomputing specialists and in academia. Previous graduates have found employment with Silicon Genetics and Novozymes, as well as in research groups including at Harvard Medical School and in Developmental Biology at Lund University.

More information can be found at http://www.lu.se/bioinformatics

Programme fact sheet

This programme/course is currently closed for applications

Information

  • Mina Ali, from Iran

    “Bioinformatics is a multi-
    disciplinary field of science and this combination of disciplines is very appealing to me. When I study bioinformatics my knowledge gets much broader in different areas such as protein science, genetics and computer programming. It gives me the opportunity to learn more about Life Science.”

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  • Christian Brüffer, from Germany

    “I really like the programme. There are really engaged teachers and we get a good sample of the widespread field that is bioinformatics. It is an emerging field, studying certain predispositions in our genes and what I find most interesting is that we are concentrating on biology, not computer science.”

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